MS Access help?

[BookstoreEscapee]

I guess this is the place for this kind of question...

I work with Access a lot at work; I'm no expert but I've got the basics pretty much down. One of my goals for the coming year is to teach my coworker. About all she really can do is run queries that are already built, and get the information out of whatever tables they spit out.

So I'm wondering if anyone knows of any really basic, beginner resources for learning Access. I have a few books but I think they would really overwhelm her (even the Dummies book). Online resources or tutorials would be great.

Other considerations: Her general computer skills are also very basic; her formal education only went up to 6th grade, and English is not her first language (she's from Portugal and has been here about 8 years, I think). She never really worked with computers much at all until she started working for my boss, except for a few very specific functions when she used to worked out in the warehouse. Throwing new stuff at her gets her a bit flustered, between the lack of computer skills in general and the language barrier that crops up sometimes.

[Der Cute]

tutorials

I've used lynda.com stuff before, and it's pretty good.

You could sign up for a tutorial and have her go through that, it's not interactive BUT it demonstrates how to do things.

She may need to fluff up her computer skills BEFORE taking on the Access stuff. How is her comprehension on logic? She'll need to be understanding of logic and terminology.

Cutenoob

[Geek King]

She may need to fluff up her computer skills BEFORE taking on the Access stuff. How is her comprehension on logic? She'll need to be understanding of logic and terminology.

I have to agree here. It sounds like she may need a good Into to Computers course to get familier with things first.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I'll have to see about that. That would be up to my boss. Basically, she knows how to do what she's taught, but I don't know how well she can extend that knowledge to be able to just say "go do this" and have her know how to figure it out.

He mentioned seeing if his boss would agree to my attending some classes (like full-day seminar type things) to learn more, programming, Visual Basic and stuff.

On a side note, I was working on a database, converting one that I already run every week, that pulls info by business, and I had to convert it to department instead (along with just about every other report we run, by the first week of May), and for some reason my new version was giving me tons more than the old version. I still don't know why (if it was pulling more info than I need or summing something it shouldn't be, or what) but today I got it to work, and my totals from both were the same, so yay. (It's the little things...).