How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office Access 2003

by Virginia Andersen

Book Overview

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Here is the ideal resource for anyone who wants to get the most out of all the new and enhanced features Access has to offer. Learn the best methods for creating and customizing a new database, retrieving, processing, presenting, and exchanging data, securing your Access environment--and much more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072229381
• ISBN13: 9780072229387
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 533 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

very practical abd easy to work with

this is an very well easy o read and easy to use yet powerful tool. practice files can be download from osborne so no cd is required. if you're a beginner you can pick and quickly - if your advanced there's meat there also. good examples.

decent reference

I usually rely on the O'Reilly guides for software, but could not find one appropriate to my level of experience in Access - I have used the program before to look up and modify data, but am now in charge of organizing a small database and developing some queries. This book did a good job of breaking down the process, BOTH through the *wizards* - of which Access has an inordinate number, AND without the wizards. I was surprised to see such negative reviews - unless other reviewers are frustrated with the lack of VBA or SQL. But this doesn't claim to be a book about either of those languages. Maybe the fact is Access is just an unfriendly program, both to programmers (too many wizards) and non-technical users (for whom SQL=WTF). The only major drawback to this book is that it does not provide an adequate introduction or overview to Access. If you have never used Access before, that would be a problem. Otherwise, it is a good basic how-to.