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10 Minute Guide to Access 97

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This is an outstanding book for BEGINNERS learning Access. This is not a book for people who have used the program and are experienced with it. Other reviewers have dinged it for not being what THEY needed, but it sounds like they just bought the wrong book for their needs. Excellent step-by-step, foolproof guidance for the non-techie, such as a manager, an assistant, etc. who needs to set up a database quickly.

It's a very easy and useful book for beginners. But it lacks some very important topics like OLE linking. I would not recommend this book for anyone who has used Access for more than one week. All information contained in this book is easily found in Access help menu.

I bought the book based on a review by others here at Amazon, and found that indeed the book was great for a beginner.

I had never even opened Access before, and found the book laid out clearly what Access was used for.

Compared to other books I looked at in the stores, this book does not go into any detail about the depth of Access, but then again, as a beginner, I do not want that info so soon.

I highly recommend this for a starting point.

This book delivered on its promise to get me up and running with Access 97. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to cut to the chase with a clearly written book for users, not techno-geeks. I was building usable, robust databases after the first three chapters. There is one error on page 42, showing the "up one level" button on an open file dialog as a right arrow... but this is minor and will not confuse anyone who has spent some time with Windows 95. Coupled with Que's Special Edition Using Access 97, a person could be pretty dangerous with databases!

This book runs through the basics of building and using an Access database. The text is simple enough for beginners, and each chapter can indeed be read in about 10 minutes. I can't help feeling, though, that there is something more I need to know that wasn't covered in this book. In any case, if you're trying to dive in and use the program, and you don't know much about databases, this book can really help you out.

Only 10 minutes you need to learn this book and Access 97 anyway! However you can catch all Access 97 in just a minutes time, but you can't build good application without really use it in practise on your tuts and PC. Great start for beginner and for expert to save memory to remember Acc's syntax

this acces97 is very usefull for me and learners too because this book it help me more to under- standing about what does it. i finally i beleive this book is good one for acces97 learning too,

I read the reviews by others and found them to be with the exception of 1 person, not at all in line with my recommendation. If you are looking for a reference book this is not it. This book seems to be an oversight of access 97. Didn't help me in any respect to accomplishng the tasks I needed to accomplish. I could not find one help to guide me through my questions. I would recommend this book only to totally new beginners to software use.

The book was okay. i dont know about 10 minutes. but it doesnt take too long.