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Summary: Excellent for starting programming in Access 97 VBA
Review: Switching from Cobol to Access VBA was a daunting task, but this text gave me an extremely thorough basis and brought me up to an intermediate level that a college class in standalone VB did not. I especially appreciated the detail of the compairison between using macros versus using VBA. The example of dyncamically creating a control (while my program is running) was exactly what my shop needed, and exploded the possibilities where I could go with Access. Understanding scope, passing parameters, dynamic arrays, functions, custom data types, clones were all contained in examples I could understand. I would not even waste my time writing this if this book was not top flight.
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Summary: utter waste of money
Review: The book is approximately 950 pages of fluff with about 50 pages of possibly useful information. The examples and descriptions are not related and totally unorganized from a learning standpoint.
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Summary: Excellent book for learning how to program in Access VBA
Review: This book (unlike many other programming books) does not assume you already know how to program, and just need pointers on the syntax of the specific language. It actually teaches you how to program in Access VBA from the ground up, and goes right on through to fairly advanced programming. An excellent book for beginners to intermediate programmers alike. It also covers writing Access macros to a level of sophistication far beyond what is usually covered in Access books
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Summary: Do Not Buy This Book
Review: This could have been a good book, but Query by Form does not work as described in the book. Page 395 indicates that you can choose the Remove Filter/Sort command in the Records menu... and all records are displayed. Not true. Also, automated filter removal using macros (chapter 9) and DoCmd (chapter 18) do not work. You cannot drag Customer ID from the field list to the form, it is not in the list using the database on the supplied CD. Too many errors and omissions to be a usefull book.
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Summary: Good book if you know a litle and like to know more
Review: This is a good book for biginers to advance to things thay would not realy lurn by doing on your own.I'm a biginging Pro Database develper and i have a lot of books on this topic. this book is not for me but it is a nice book if you like to Know VBA and Makro's, Get this book if you like to lurn the two topics ,the Macro part is a bit week but the extra's on the cd are realy good. If you are a (beginer)programer like me you will like the Develpers hand book from Sybex Feel free to email me if you like
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Summary: Waste of a tree!
Review: This is another example of wasted effort by both author and reader. The reader gets a big thick volume that can be used as a paper weight or door stop. The author came up with a good title that will appeal to many Access knowledge seekers. Too bad the author did not spend more time developing usable examples and step by step instructions that teach VBA/Macros for Access. The VBA sections are very shallow for the size of the book. If you want to learn Access Macros or VBA go to another source. Nobody seems to be able to handle this subject on the 4 or 5 star level. Maybe someday someone will write a book that is useful to the Access programmer who wants to go beyond the simple examples included in most books in print today.
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Summary: Very well written and presented...
Review: This is my second book on Access. I find this book to be very well written. Many users are complaining about examples that don't work. I think this is intentional on the part of the author. I look at it as an impromptu test. Any good instructor will give you periodic exams. Look at the examples that don't work as exams.
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Summary: Do Not Buy This Book
Review: This is not a good book to cuddle up with. I am a not-so-newbie with Access and when I had a difficult problem it was this book that saved me. There are two kinds of difficulties I have with Access: the obvious problems whose answers are staring me in the face, and the non-intuitive nit-picky boring problems that last for a week. This book is for the second type of problem
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Summary: A book for desperate times
Review: This is not a good book to cuddle up with. I am a not-so-newbie with Access and when I had a difficult problem it was this book that saved me. There are two kinds of difficulties I have with Access: the obvious problems whose answers are staring me in the face, and the non-intuitive nit-picky boring problems that last for a week. This book is for the second type of problem
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Summary: Not as good as it could have been
Review: When I flipped through the book in the store, it looked pretty good, better than the other book I looked at. (Access 97 Power Programming) Unfortunately, once I got down to using it, it left a lot to be desired. The main thing I was hoping for was a good, in depth, lesson on DAO. The examples are about on par with the ones in the online help, ie. they cover the trivial case, but don't really help with more typical cases. Also, as mentioned by someone else, there are far to many typos, especially in the examples. I didn't come close to trying every example, but there were several that didn't work as printed. Finally, why were the tables and appendices put on the CD instead of in the book where they belong? For the first day I had the book, I couldn't look at any of the tables, since my computer at work doesn't have a CD-ROM drive. All in all, it's not a bad book, but I can't recommend it at its full retail price. By the time bookstores are blowing it out cheap, it'll be 3 versions out of date, so there's really no reason not to buy something else.
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