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Great Outdoors Tours is a small business that organizes day-long, guided trips of
Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The company provides customers
with a wide variety of hiking, biking, and paddling trips for all levels of experience. Outdoors
Tours has added a number of new trips and guides over the last few years and the growth
has necessitated a change in the way the company manages its operations. Great Outdoors
Tours has decided to organize their records in using Access 2013.The company would like
your help creating some tables, importing some of their records from a spreadsheet, and
creating some basic forms and reports.
GETTING STARTED
Download the following file from the Black Board website:
o Access2013_project1.accdb
To complete this Project, you will also need to download and save the following Excel
support file from the Black Board website:
o support_AC1_Trips.xlsx
PROJECT STEPS
1. Create a new table in Datasheet view with the following options:
a. Rename the default primary key ID field to State and change the
Data Type to Short Text. (Tip: State should remain the primary
key.)
b. Change the field size of the State field to 2.
c. Add a new field with the name StateName and change the data
type to Short Text.
d. Save the table with the name States.
2. With the States table still open in Datasheet view, add the four records shown
in Table 1.
Table 1: States table
State StateName
MA Massachusetts
ME Maine
NH New Hampshire
VT Vermont
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3. Resize the StateName field so that all field values are completely visible. Save
and close the States table.
4. Open the Guides table in Datasheet view. Add a new field following the
PostalCode field with the field name YearsExperience and the Number data
type. Close the table.
5. Open the Trips table in Design view and make the following changes to the
Distance field.
a. Change the data type from Short Text to Number
b. Change the Caption property to Distance (Miles)
6. With the Trips table still open in Design view, make the following changes to
the GroupSize field:
a. Change the data type from Short Text to Number
b. Change the Decimal Places property from Auto to 0.
c. Change the Caption property to Maximum Group Size
7. With the Trips table still open in Design view, change the Field Size property
for the State field to 2. Save the changes to the Trips table and then close it.
(Note: Because there were changes to data type and field sizes, the “Some
data may be lost” warning message appears. The data fits within the valid
ranges, so ignore this message and continue saving the table.)
8. Import the data from the Excel file support_A1_Trips.xlsx available for
download from the Black Board website. Append the records into the Trips
table. Do not create a new table and do not save the import steps.
9. Open the Trips table in Datasheet view, navigate to the third record (which
has a TripID field value of CLNHP1) and enter KS01 for GuideID field value.
Navigate to the previous record (which has a TripID field value of BPMEH1)
and enter RH01 for the GuideID field value. Close the table.
10. Open the Guide Listing Query in Design view and add a criterion to select only
those records with a State field value of NH. Run the query, then save, and
close the query.
11. Use the Simple Query Wizard to create a query based on the Trips table with
the following options:
a. Include all fields from the Trips table in the query.
b. Make sure the Detail option button is selected.
c. Save the query with as Trips Query (which is the default name).
Close the query.
12. Create a simple form for the Trips table. Save the form as Trips Form and
close the form. (Hint: Use the Form button to create this form.) Access 2013 Project 1
13. Create the simple report shown in Figure 1 for the Trips table. (Note: Your
report may show a different date and time than Figure 1.) Do not add any
totals and do not resize any columns. Save the report as Trips Report and
close the report.