Customer Reviews

Access Bible for Windows 95 (Bible Series)

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Covers BASICS beautifully. Lightly introduces intermediate workings of Access. Very deficient in intermediate or upper-end Access functionality. Since this book includes the word "Bible" in it, I expected basics, intermediate and upper-end would all be contained within its covers. Not so.

This book is the best instruction book for computer software that I have ever used. After spending weeks and hundreds of manhours manipulating data in a spreadsheet (because I had not learned the basics of Access) I decide it was time to learn. I found this book and after only reviewing the first 10 or 11 chapters, was able to manipulate the same data and generate great reports in only a matter of minutes. This book is the bes

For as much as this book could have offered, a few items that I don't think would have taken up too much space would have been helpful. For instance, appendixes of functions, expressions and VBA commands, along with their use and implementation, would have been nice. The book is well-built, though, and flows logically and quickly through all the major topics and most of the minor or advanced ones. Very nice, though (as mentioned before) VBA coverage is too incomplete to be of much value.

This book earns 4 stars in my evaluation. It covers the basics without over-emphasizing them. It also covers more advanced topics, and gives practical examples and usage in custom applications. The only con I can say about this book is that it tackles VBA and DAO only at the end, devoting only a few chapters for both. Still, it is an over-all wish list item for a pure Access developer.