Access 97 Macro & VBA Handbook

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Summary: Book Truely Needs Serious Work.
Review: A typical attempt at explaining Microsoft software. The book passes up the opportunity to present an introduction to "meat and potatoes" programming in VBA for the idea that "The thicker the book the better." The author & publisher (Sybex) seemed more concerned with typeset and layout than substance and solid presentation of programming VBA for MS Access. ...even this shows a real lack of commentment when Tables that belong in the text appear on the CD-ROM. My honest advice - save your fifty bucks and save another poor tree from having to be abused with such slop.

Rating:
Summary: Book Truely Needs Serious Work.
Review: A typical attempt at explaining Microsoft software. The book passes up the opportunity to present an introduction to "meat and potatoes" programming in VBA for the idea that "The thicker the book the better." The author & publisher (Sybex) seemed more concerned with typeset and layout than substance and solid presentation of programming VBA for MS Access. ...even this shows a real lack of commentment when Tables that belong in the text appear on the CD-ROM. My honest advice - save your fifty bucks and save another poor tree from having to be abused with such slop.

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Summary: An excellent introductory book.
Review: An excellent Introductory book to start programming in Access VBA . I certainly learned quite a bit from it and recommend it wholeheartedy to anyone who wishes to get his feet wet with VBA.

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Summary: A bit too many typos, but worth the money anyway.
Review: An ideal reader of this book should have quite some knowledge of table, query, form and report design, but no macro and module design experience. That's when this book is a real eye-opener. It assumes no previous knowledge of VBA and it starts of with basic things--Access and DAO object model, introduction to events, etc. Then, it went on to identifiers(i.e. how do you reference fields, controls, etc), and only THEN it goes on to programming techniques like if..then and other decision structures, a heavy chunk of DAO, a bit of SQL, and some other useful stuff. What's not excusable, however is that this book has some typos not only on the pages, but in the code. Although the mistakes are correctable with some common sence, this has prevented the book from receiving 5 stars from me.

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Summary: Frustration! - good intentions, but looks hurried-to-print
Review: I read and enjoyed Novalis' earlier Access book on Macros; the only one written specifically on that subject. Once past the first 90-100 pages, she hit a stride of good detail and useful specifics. I expected the same from this Access 97 book. I was wrong. Too often, pages go by without specific examples (especially in macros section). It really breaks down in the VBA section; there are lots of sample code, but virtually no detailed explanation of the statements -- her code samples are completely devoid of line-by-line (or section-by-section) documentation that in real life you would hope a programmer to include, especially for learning purposes. Unfortunately, it's as though Novalis rushed the book into print. It still has useful information, but seems to lack the clarity of purpose, the specifics targeted for learning purposes, and the tied-together presentation of subject matter found in her earlier book. She still includes quite a bit of information, but it is a struggle to find it, and then to really learn from it.

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Summary: Can You Spell U-S-E-L-E-S-S; How About B-O-R-I-N-G?
Review: I wish I would have read the reviews here (particularly the one about a wasted tree) before I shelled out my money to buy this (God I hate to use the word) book. The authors writing style is boring and tedious. The author has not included enough quality code examples, and instead, has opted to include countless screen images that do little more than take up page space.

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Summary: Not as good as it could have been
Review: If you understand basic database concepts and want to make your applications more sophisticated by learning VBA for Access 97, this is the perfect book. I found the Access 97 Developer's Handbook helpful, but too advanced to get much out of it. This book helped me to make use of the Developer's Handbook and develop much better applications. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: Perfect for the intermediate skilled Access 97 developer
Review: If you understand basic database concepts and want to make your applications more sophisticated by learning VBA for Access 97, this is the perfect book. I found the Access 97 Developer's Handbook helpful, but too advanced to get much out of it. This book helped me to make use of the Developer's Handbook and develop much better applications. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: HAS ALOT OF INFOMATION, BUT PRESENTATION COULD BE BETTER
Review: It covers alot of topics , but the details and description did not always flow well. It was in essence, hard to follow due to the book layout. Don't use this if you are planning to learn. It works better as a refernce.

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Summary: very good
Review: It's a good book, but i think it could be better if you don't be so tecnical