I learned A LOT during this project…Since I had never worked with Microsoft Access before I felt like everything I needed to do for the project was something completely new that I had to learn. One thing in particular that surprised me about Access were the Reports and Forms. I didn’t realize that Access could create professional looking documents with just a few simple clicks.
Above is a Screen shot of a Form in Access that I took using Jing.
While I was working on this project my mind kept racing in a billion different directions on all the ways this program could be used. Obviously, as we learned during the lectures and while doing the project, Access is great for keeping records of products, people and dates. But I was thinking, since it automatically assigns numbers to lists, it could also be used to organize buildings (for instance City Planners could use it to organize their work), patients (Doctors could assign a random number to each patient to ensure confidentiality), subjects (Researchers could use the random numbers to assign to test subjects to keep those that are placebo's a secret). I'm sure that these reasons are already being used, and that there are also about a million others that I haven't even thought of!
All in all, I'm glad I had the opportunity to learn more about Microsoft Access and its MANY features. I'm sure that I will be using this program in the future...in a lot of different ways!
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