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Chapter 1: Getting to Know Access 2010
Figure 1-7:
Pick a
template
from any
category
offered with
Office online
templates
to speed
up your
database-
building
process.
✓ Publishing to the Web is even easier, including the reports you’ve cre-
ated, your forms, and your data itself. The whole shooting match can be
opened in a browser window once you publish and upload it to the Web.
Look in Chapter 10 for more information on how this works.
✓ Navigation forms make it easier to organize your database components,
using a simple drag-and-drop method to display desired parts of your
database. (More about this feature in Chapter 21.)
✓ Table Events (also known as triggers) — which create new data based
on the data in your tables — are new in 2010. You’ll find out more about
those in Chapter 6; for now, suffice to say you’ll find data macros to be a
very handy way to add effective automation to your database.
✓ Between Data Bars and Conditional Formatting, reports have become
much more dynamic in Access 2010. Discussed in Chapter 17, you’ll find
out how to apply formatting based on the content of your data — based
on values found in the records themselves, in other words — making
your reports that much more intuitive.
So that’s a lot of new features and powerful tools you’ve now got at your dis-
posal. Other than the Backstage view, which you get to see by default when
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