Microsoft Excel
Links to other applications exercise
Harder than average exercise

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Exercise: Form linked to Access query for football

A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-137.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2) Create a form in Excel which displays the names of teams taken from the query called Lookup Teams in the Access database:
Exercise screen-shot 189 The drop list is populated from the Access query
3) When a user chooses a team and clicks on the Show Details button, the system should:
  • Show the team's ground and colours, if it exists in the Excel worksheet; or
  • Show a message otherwise saying the team hasn't been found
4) Here is what you might see for the above team choice:
Exercise screen-shot 190 The message where a team is found
5) Save and close this workbook.

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