Crystal Reports: A Beginner's Guide

by David McAmis

Book Overview

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Begin using Crystal Reports and create winning reports and documents with precision and ease

This self-paced learning resource covers all the basics clearly and accurately and is ideal for new Crystal Reports users...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072193263
• ISBN13: 9780072193268
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Coverage and Design

Crystal Reports: A Beginner's Guide covers everything and more that I wanted to learn about Crystal Reports. The information is easy to digest and there are regular 1-Minute checks along the way. Hands-on experience, in the form of Projects, are dispersed through each chapter (the completed projects can be downloaded from the web). Answers to the Mastery Checks, at the end of every chapter, are given in the Appendix.My only complaint about the book is that, I feel, there is not enough hands-on experience because the projects are too simple. There are plenty of projects, but most of them are simply a number of steps and very little critical thinking. After reading Crystal Reports: A Beginner's Guide, my knowledge of Crystal Reports has vastly increased though I still have little experience with actually creating reports.

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Very helpful book

I'm fairly new to Crystal Reports and chose this book to help me get started. I like the layout of the subject matter. It seems well organized with the more advanced topics after the simpler ones. I espicially liked some tips I picked up on how to handle empty address lines. I'd reccomend this book to anyone who is new to Crystal!

A great book

If you are an absolute beginner with Crystal Reports, this is the book for you. I have no experience in databases (except for Access and Excel), and I've been able to get going VERY quickly with Crystal, creating reports with graphs, totals and some formulas (although I need more practice). The book is easy to follow, but it doesn't help you with your own database-- you may find many skeletons in the closet when you try to find data within your own database... bad data, mixed up data entry, empty fields. Crystal won't fix any of those problems, but at least you can see what's in there.Its a great little book and maybe one day I will be ready for the big thick one I looked at, but not just yet!