Automating Microsoft Access with VBA (Business Solutions)

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Summary: An invaluable and continuing reference
Review: Mike Gunderloy and Susan Sales Harkinsdeftly collaborate in Automating Micro-soft Access with VBA to produce an ideal, comprehensive, 408 page introduction and instructional manual enabling the reader to readily take full and ocmplete advantage of VBA's diverse capabilities. With thoroughly "user friendly" instructions for customizing Access database applications to meet business needs, Automating Micro-soft Access with VBA is an invaulauble and continuing reference.


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Summary: A Quick Lesson for the Non-programming Professional
Review: With Microsoft Access you automatically get a lot of capabilities to do forms and reports based on the data to be put into or taken out of the database you create. You also get a macro capability so that a limited amount of manipulation of this data can be done automatically. Used less frequently but which is far more powerful is the programming language Visual Basic for Applications or VBA. Built into each copy of Access for several versions VBA is there and available for use whenever needed. All that's needed is the skill to write the programs.

This is a relatively small book for one on computer software, it's hardly 400 pages. The intent of the book is to get you up and running in a short period of time. It's aimed at the computer professional who use Microsoft Access in a business setting. You are not expected to be a programmer, but by the end of the book you'll be able to program using VBA and to do so quickly.

When you know VBA for Access, you'll also be well on your way to knowing VBA for the rest of the Microsoft office suite. The various forms of VBA do have some changes that relate to the underlying structure of the application. But the basic structure of the language itself is the same.

There's only one thing I'd like to see added in the next revision of the book, that is a list of the reserved words used by the Access database. Not knowing these has gotten me in trouble a couple of times.