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Book ReviewsAccess 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies |
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Book: Access 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies
Written by: Alan Simpson Margaret Levine Young Alison Barrows |
Publisher: For Dummies
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5
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Maybe it's For Dummies, But it's Got it All...
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5 / 5
This is the best reference book for Access 2003. It has clear, concise examples and is organized well. Additionally, it has Visual Basic help, which is essential if you're writing modules, which almost any database application will require. In short, it's as basic as you want it to be, and will support advanced users as well. I really appreciate this book after going through some other publications and coming up empty.
A brave attempt
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3 / 5
Keep in mind: I absolutely hate MS Access for being non-intuitive, dense, and frustrating for anyone but a programmer. Given that, the authors make a brave attempt to explain Access and their book has been enormously helpful to me. Still, certain basic concepts never quite get explicated as a 'dummy' would like. I still don't know how to put a picture on a form or to get fields to fill in 'automagically.' The book tells me it can be done, but it stops shorting of showing me exactly how. Getting precise instructions from this book is often like getting directions from a Vermont farmer who assumes that you know "where the old church used to be" or "where Joe's brother got struck by lightning." It often points me in the right direction without quite getting me where I want to go.
All-in-One References are a cool line of books....
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5 / 5
The All-in-One Desk References are such a cool line of books. I like how they are broken down into minibooks so that I can use the book to learn about areas where I am still a "beginner", but also learn tasks in areas where I'm not such a newbie too. The minibooks in this one are: Introduction and Database Design, tables, queires, forms, reports, macros, database admin. programming with VBA, and using Access with the Web. You won't be disappointed!
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