The OLeary Series: Access 2010 Lab 1: Creating a Database

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Be sure to
select Download
Start File before
beginning.
Pepper Ridge Rentals Database
2. You manage a real estate rental business and decide to implement a database to
track the rental properties. A database will be useful to look up any information about
the rental, including its location, how many bedrooms and bathrooms, square footage,
and date available. When you are finished, your database table should be similar to the
one shown at the end of this document.
1. Open the database named PepperRidgeRentals_1-2. Enable Content in the
Security Warning bar.
2. Create a new table with the following fields:
Rental Address
City
Date Available
Bedrooms
Bathrooms
Sq Footage
Owners Name
3. Switch to Design view. Save the table as Rental Homes.
4. Change the ID field name to Rental ID.
5. Add an Attachment field and name it Photo of Home.
6. Change the field size of the Address and Owners Name fields to 40.
7. Change the field size of the City field to 20.
8. Set the Date Available data type to Date, Short format.
9. The data type for Bedrooms, Bathrooms, and Sq Footage should be Number.
10. Return to Datasheet view. Add the following records to the table:
New Record New Record New Record New Record
Rental
Address:
1500 Sycamore
Lane
8900
Sparrows
Nest
53 Easy
Street
221 Cedar
Street
City:
Colorado
Springs
Cascade
Cimarron
Hills
Colorado
Springs
Date
Available:
5/12/2012 6/1/2012 7/1/2012 8/1/2012
Bedrooms: 3 2 4 2
Bathrooms: 2 1 3 2
Sq Footage: 1700 840 2300 1100
Owners
Name:
Sam Caslon Betty Rose
Richard
Perez
Harrieta
Springfield

The OLeary Series: Access 2010 Lab 1: Creating a Database
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Remember to
click the Submit
My Project button
to submit your
work for grading.
Select
Download
Resources to
download the
files needed for
this project.
11. Insert the image file 1500SycamoreHouse in the Attachment field of the first
record.
Note: Download the resource file(s) needed for this project from the Download
Resources link. Make sure to extract the file(s) after downloading the resources zip
folder.
12. Adjust the column widths using the Best Fit feature.
13. Delete the record for the address 8900 Sparrows Nest.
14. In the database properties, add your name as the author and Pepper Ridge
Rentals as the title.
15. View the table in Print Preview; change the page orientation to landscape and
margins to Normal. Close the print preview.


Print Preview: Rental Homes Table
16. Save and close the table.
17. Export the edited Access table to a new Excel workbook for grading in SimGrader.
a. Open the Rental Homes table, click the External Data tab.
b. In the Export group, click the Excel button. The Export window opens.
c. In the Export window, verify that the Export data with formatting and layout
check box is checked. If necessary, click the box to add the checkmark.
d. Click the Browse button. Navigate to your desktop.
e. In the File Name box, type the new file name PepperRidgeRentals_1-2.
f. Click the Save button. Click OK. Click Close, to close the Export window.
g. Save and close the Database.
18. Submit the Excel file to SimGrader.
Do not open the Excel file before submitting.