In this guide, Cox, an author of Office and Windows books who develops training materials about technical subjects for non-technical readers, and Lambert, who translates technical information and requirements into training and certification tools, explain how to create a database using Microsoft Access 2010. They provide step-by-step instructions for creating forms for data entry, writing queries to extract and manipulate data, designing reports to organize and summarize data, and importing data from other databases and documents. The guide also covers preventing data corruption and unauthorized access, making databases user friendly, customization, among other tasks. Practice files and a searchable edition of the text are available online. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)