The Access training gives you a solid foundation to create and exploit Microsoft Access databases and move from spreadsheet to true information management tool. Over a full day, you discover Access tables, queries, forms and reports. A strategic skill for administrative and operational profiles handling data volumes that exceed Excel limits in French speaking Switzerland.
Move from saturated Excel to a real Access database and regain control of your data volumes
For Swiss French speaking organizations, knowing how to build an Access database makes a difference when an Excel file starts to lag or lose data. This Access training centers on operational practice: client tracking, inventory management, contact base, project tracking.
Module 1: Office Workspace Basics
Module 2: Introduction to Access
Module 3: Working with Tables
Module 4: Designing Tables
Module 5: Creating and Running Queries
Module 6: Using Forms
Module 7: Generating Reports
Microsoft Access remains a database management tool particularly suited to SMEs and services that have exceeded Excel limits without needing heavy IT development. With Access, you can manage thousands of rows, several linked tables, complex entries via forms and clean restitutions via reports.
The training places significant focus on Access tables and relational database logic. You learn to design structured tables, define the right data types, set up primary keys and table relationships.
The heart of Access training is query creation. You learn to filter, sort, group, aggregate data via the graphical query editor.
Access forms turn data entry from a chore into an ergonomic interface. The training details form creation: field layout, input controls, data validation.
Access reports allow producing printable or exportable restitutions: invoices, lists, statistics, personalized letters.
The Access Fundamentals training is designed for administrative services, HR, sales, management, self employed professionals.
At our ITTA centers in Carouge and Le Flon, this Access Fundamentals training runs over one day.
What is the difference between Access and Excel?
Excel is a spreadsheet, Access is a database. Excel suits simple calculations and tables; Access suits large volumes, structured data and relationships.
Do I need to know how to program to use Access?
No. Access offers graphical editors. Access VBA programming is a more advanced topic.
When to prefer Access over Excel?
When volume exceeds thousands of rows, when several tables must be linked, when multiple people enter data simultaneously.
Does this Access training cover SQL queries?
The training mainly uses the graphical query editor. SQL Access is mentioned but not deepened.
Is this Access training held in Geneva?
Yes, at the ITTA center in Carouge in Geneva, at Le Flon in Lausanne and in a virtual classroom.
How long to master Access?
The basics are acquired in a structured day.
Is Access still used in business in 2026?
Yes, particularly in SMEs and services needing a quick database setup without heavy IT projects.
Beginner Access users wanting to create their first business database without going through a developer or complex cloud tool. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, consulting and growing SMEs. No specific prerequisite is required other than a concrete willingness to progress on the subject.
You leave with an operational mastery of the fundamentals, reusable canvases on your concrete cases, a structured action plan for the weeks that follow. Many participants report a visible effect from the first week back, with sustainable anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course combines short theory inputs, practical exercises on your real situations and personalized trainer debrief.
An HR head structuring her candidate database without IT dependency. A salesperson piloting personal CRM via Access. An assistant digitalizing internal procedure with forms, queries and Access reports. The course adapts exercises to your context with personalized trainer feedback, and each participant leaves with an action plan calibrated to their own situation.
This training combines well with Excel for analytical complementarity, Power Apps for modern no-code solutions, and SharePoint Lists for simple collaborative needs. Many participants enroll in one of these courses in the following trimester, according to their current priority and professional context.
Access remains relevant in specific contexts: precise business needs without IT budget, rapid prototyping, environments where Power Apps is not accessible. This training targets users wanting to master this discreet but powerful tool, complement or alternative to modern solutions.
Most participants report a noticeable effect from the first week of return, with deeper anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice on real files. The course closes with a personalized practice plan calibrated on your professional context, including milestones and review prompts to ensure the techniques become permanent.
The tools and techniques covered in this course are used daily by millions of professionals across Geneva and Lausanne organizations. Mastery of these features transforms repetitive work into efficient routine, freeing time for higher-value activities. This training relies on real professional cases and offers an outfitted approach calibrated for the 2025-2026 evolutions of the platform.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs in a small group with an expert trainer and a format alternating concise theory, practical exercises and personalized debrief. Group confidentiality is explicit and held. Each participant arrives with a real case and leaves with an action plan calibrated to their context. The course integrates recent evolutions of the domain (digital tools, hybrid formats, 2025-2026 practices) without losing focus on fundamentals.
Is Access still relevant in 2026?
Yes in some contexts (on-premise, precise need, prototype). For new projects, Power Apps is often preferred.
Need SQL knowledge?
No, Access provides graphical query creation tools.
Suitable for non-IT profiles?
Yes, the course addresses business profiles wanting to master Access without prior technical background.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers in French speaking Switzerland: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Cotes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
