Access 2000: The Complete Reference

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Summary: If you love to read read & read some more this is for you!
Review: I wasn't looking for a novel when I bought this book. I have enough knowledge to get around in acces and just wanted a referece that will give me the guidence to do the rest in a matter of few minutes. Wasn't expecting to read a novel to find something simple!!
If you prefer pictures illustrations to essay descriptions this isn't the book for you ..

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Summary: Very Useful
Review: If you need to do more with Access that build a table and use a wizard to build a form or report, you need this on your shelf. I have finally broken down and had to try to build administrative databases on my own for work and I simply don't know enough to do that. This book is great for me though because I can go as far as I can figure out on my own in Access, get stumped, and turn to this book for the answer. What I am finding really useful is the instruction on how to build an app using Access. Making the Switchboard, what is the difference between a macro and an event procedure, how do you do macros, etc. - that is all covered really well. This book is an immense help to me. It's only weakness - for me, because I already know VB - is that the use of VBA in Access is only one chapter and has a lot of basic stuff about VB like using conditional logic and loops. I really need to know more about how it is integrated. I would like to see a lot more VBA code examples in the sidebars. Still, I have already got a working application with the help of this book in just a few days. Can't argue with that!

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Summary: like it says - its a "reference," not a step by step book
Review: It's a good book and an easy read (I should say EASIER read - no 1000+ page book on access is an "easy read") This would be a great book for someone who is at the intermediate level. Note that the thrust of this book revolves around the access certification exam-that's the CD). I'll save mine and read it when I'm ready. It is a nicely written though.

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Summary: Very comprehensive review
Review: One of the best, more comprehensive reviews of Access 2000 --suitable for both beginners and more advanced users who need to refresh their memories about selected features.

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Summary: Very comprehensive review
Review: One of the best, more comprehensive reviews of Access 2000 --suitable for both beginners and more advanced users who need to refresh their memories about selected features.

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Summary: excellent book
Review: received in 7-8 business days, excellent condition of the book

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Summary: Access 2000
Review: This book has clear and straight to the point objective. Computer novices should find this book as an excellant reference and be able to use it as a "How to do it" guide.

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Summary: Review of the Complete Ref Access 2000
Review: This book was useful as a quick reference for the things that are simple to do, that you may have just forgotten or did not know how to go about doing. But as far as getting to the more intermediate and advanced applications of Access, it left you with little help. The book highlighted many of the MOUS exam objectives that were suppose to be applied in each chapter, but the book lacked enough substantive examples to help the reader truly understand the concepts if they did not already have in-depth knowledge. The book oversimplified some of the more difficult tasks and overkilled the most basic fundamentals that are easily walked through by the wizards. The most annoying part of the book was the reference to other parts of the book for the answers to questions posed by the author. If a topic comes up,(like a how do you do this?) a reader wants to know how to solve the dilemma when the question is posed, not 20 chapters later. The author made too much of an attempt to section the book into defined topics and forgot that this is a relational database we are dealing with and so things should flow more smoothly. This book wasn't enough of a reference and therefore should only be relied upon for simplistic reading.

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Summary: Review of the Complete Ref Access 2000
Review: This book was useful as a quick reference for the things that are simple to do, that you may have just forgotten or did not know how to go about doing. But as far as getting to the more intermediate and advanced applications of Access, it left you with little help. The book highlighted many of the MOUS exam objectives that were suppose to be applied in each chapter, but the book lacked enough substantive examples to help the reader truly understand the concepts if they did not already have in-depth knowledge. The book oversimplified some of the more difficult tasks and overkilled the most basic fundamentals that are easily walked through by the wizards. The most annoying part of the book was the reference to other parts of the book for the answers to questions posed by the author. If a topic comes up,(like a how do you do this?) a reader wants to know how to solve the dilemma when the question is posed, not 20 chapters later. The author made too much of an attempt to section the book into defined topics and forgot that this is a relational database we are dealing with and so things should flow more smoothly. This book wasn't enough of a reference and therefore should only be relied upon for simplistic reading.

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Summary: Great Detail
Review: This is the third or fourth book on Access I have purchased and the book contains (often in chart/table format) more useful detail than I have found in other books for beginner-intermediate Access users. This is my first choice