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Summary: more like VBA for people who know Access 97
Review: I bought this book last fall and I still keep referring to it. I picked up something from almost every chapter that I could use in my databases. It doesn't waste time covering general Access features. The Dummies title is misleading, because you have to have a fair amount of Access knowledge to be able to get through it. But you won't need any programming knowledge. (If you do, try VBA for Dummies) It gives a good description of what a recordset property is and how it works with bookmarks. It tells how to pass parameters to procedures, the difference between seek and find, and it's got a little bit about ActiveX. The book comes with a CD that has two extra chapters on it. The "Publishing Data for the Web" chapter has allowed me to set up forms that create web pages automatically when the forms are closed. I can keep my web data current without having to remember to do it. It showed me how to embed the HTML code directly into VBA code. It even describes how to manage a web site from inside Access. The second chapter has more debugging info and ways to document your database.
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Summary: Embed HTML in VBA!
Review: I bought this book last fall and I still keep referring to it. I picked up something from almost every chapter that I could use in my databases. It doesn't waste time covering general Access features. The Dummies title is misleading, because you have to have a fair amount of Access knowledge to be able to get through it. But you won't need any programming knowledge. (If you do, try VBA for Dummies) It gives a good description of what a recordset property is and how it works with bookmarks. It tells how to pass parameters to procedures, the difference between seek and find, and it's got a little bit about ActiveX. The book comes with a CD that has two extra chapters on it. The "Publishing Data for the Web" chapter has allowed me to set up forms that create web pages automatically when the forms are closed. I can keep my web data current without having to remember to do it. It showed me how to embed the HTML code directly into VBA code. It even describes how to manage a web site from inside Access. The second chapter has more debugging info and ways to document your database.
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Summary: The best beginners programming book I've ever read!
Review: I bought this book only because it was the only Access VBA book I could find at the time. After starting with it, I found others. I now have a library of 6 VBA books, but this is the only one I call my "bible" for programming VBA. This book covers ALL of the basics and is easier to read then any other VBA book I have ever read. My hat is off to Rob Krumm!!!!
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Summary: It doesn't get any better than this
Review: I can't praise this book highly enough. This book covers alot of practical and useful information without wasting a single page. It's a real page turner that's hard to put down once you get into it. I've read several beginner Access programming books since Access 2.0 and this one is a very refreshing change from it's dull, wasteful predecessors. It's a true pleasure to read and makes learning Access programming a practical, useful, and enjoyable experience. Microsoft needs to PAY this man.
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Summary: Forgot What A Dummy Is
Review: I have been reading the book, and tediously following the examples and tutorials. About half way through I am unsatisfied. The book shows a lot of code development but forgets to tell how it is useful ("why"). (The writer presumed the reader doesn't have some programming in mind?) There are very few good, complete, useable/stealable/adaptable examples. And the reader is not "led" through the manners in which the code can be engaged in a program. It spends an inordinate amount of time on code for limited usefulness programming features. Additionally, I have found (so far) three places where the code doesn't work; I presume someone updated Access and the book's examples were not tested or someone did a lazy revison.
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Summary: great book for someone familiar with access but not VBA
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book. It contained some great programming examples that you can easily incorporate into your own databases. I hadn't done any VBA programming before I got this book and now feel pretty comfortable. Don't let the Dummies thing fool you, this book can help anyone who does Access work.
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Summary: Rob Krumm, the author, is a master teacher
Review: I'm a dummy and I understood this book. It's well written, logical, thorough and useful.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: It might be difficult for someone with no knowledge of Access or Visual Basic, but I thought the book was great. If you have some knwledge of Access, databases in general or VBA, VB, ADO, SQL, etc, this is a great reference with a lot of examples. It's by no means a comprehensive reference like an Access Developers Handbook. But it does give a ton of practical examples that goes deeper than the push button programming most Access Developers use. I would buy more books by this author. If you want the basics, theres probably Access For Dummies. But Access programming for Dummies is about the backend coding more than building from pulldown menus.
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Summary: A frustrating waste of time.
Review: The book starts out great, explains things in a way that makes sense and leads you to believe that you're fixing to learn something. But......it is so full of mistakes! There are so many code errors and figures that just don't jive. After the 7th code mistake by Chapter 9, I quit. I felt like the publisher should send me my money back, as well as a check for proofreading the book for them. Skip this book!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: The Excel 97 Programming for Windows for Dummies by John Walkenbach was a great book for learning VBA for Excel, and it included coverage of some advanced topics. Each chapter kept building your understanding in a logical way until finally advanced topics were explained. Based on my experience with the Excel 97 Programming book, I purchased the Access 97 Programming book by Krumm. However I was quite disappointed with the Access 97 Programming book. It's coverage was spotty with some select in-depth examples. As an example, the coverage of the RunCommand was two example statements: DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdWindowCascade and DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdOptions. The explanation for RunCommands was as short as the two commands. It seemed that virtually every time I was looking for help on a VBA issue, there was nothing relevant in the Access 97 Programming for Windows for Dummies book.
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