Using Excel, you can optimize reporting for Access databases. Learn how to build powerful dashboards to visualize your data, using tools such as slicers, timelines, charts, and PivotCharts. Instructor Robin Hunt shows how to analyze, query, and export Access data for use in Excel, and connect directly to Access from Excel, so that you always have a live view of your data. Then learn how to build dashboards with slicers, timelines, and charts, and create macros that make your dashboards more user friendly. By the end of the course, you should be able to extend your current reporting capabilities and create more engaging visualizations.

Topics include:

• Understanding the software limitations
• Working with Access tables
• Analyzing table relationships
• Building queries
• Exporting data for Excel
• Linking to Access data from Excel
• Building charts and PivotCharts in Excel
• Creating macros