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A1 Soft provides tools for Office users, such as Data Pick. This tool lets you populate your Microsoft Access database table with one click. It's an ideal tool for collecting Internet information on the fly.

Visit this site to learn all about Microsoft Access. There are pages that explain modules, examples of complete databases to download and use (free of charge), and hints and tips to get the most out of Access. There is also an online question-and-answer section that aims to provide help to any user (from beginner to advanced).

KnowledgeAccess, the data-mining add-in for Access, allows the user to build and use Decision Trees from data selected within the Access Worksheet. Decision Trees are well known analytical tools globally used by data-mining experts. These trees allow the user to improve business decision making by quickly and efficiently exploring the data to identify patterns, trends, and relationships that impact their business objectives.

This site is beneficial to those who would like to learn more about developing and designing relational databases. The 26 tutorials available on this site were designed for the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, specifically with data-handling techniques in mind. The tutorials cover basic concepts in table design, relational links, using several query types, and form design through to advanced Visual Basic controls of form properties. The steps in each tutorial are clearly illustrated with screenshots and explained using a real-life application.

ProgrammingMSAccess.com offers samples, FAQ, presentations, book excerpts, tutorials, and training kits that target the needs of Access and other Office developers. This site's webmaster, Rick Dobson, is the author of Programming Microsoft Access 2000 from Microsoft Press.