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Microsoft® Access 2000 Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft))

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This book is aimed at those who are completely new to Access. It will systematically, for the most part, allow a beginner to become familiar with Tables, Forms, Queries,etc... Good examples, CD contains video examples as well. If your new to Access and want to be held by the hand then buy this book.

I'm disappointed that many people have put down this book because it doesn't teach how to build a database. If you look through the contents, it obviously focuses on using preconstructed databases, not building them. With that in mind, I had never used Access before, bought this book, used it from cover to cover, and based on what I learned got a job that doubled my secretarial salary. I do hope, however, that the authors of this book create an advanced version, because it is only beginner to somewhat intermediate level, but I just loved the fact that the authors did not assume any knowledge on the users' part and still managed to keep me from feeling like I was using one of those awful dummies books.

If you want to learn something about access 2000, don't by this book. It does not work very sistimaticly. It never goes in any depth. Maybe you can consider bying the book if you have to work with Access, not if you have to make database. I bought another more complete and expensive book. I should have done that in the first place.

After trying to teach Access to my students with this badly written book I had to give up. I must agree with other reviewers. The book does not come close to explaning the very basics of database management in the right order of ideas. Too bad that Microsoft does not care to review their books before they go to press.

You will learn how to be an Access user with this book. The book also makes a good reference. Contains a good database to work with. After mastering this book and you want to take it to the next level, programming, you will have to go on to more advanced books to learn SQL an Access VBA which are topics that are not mentioned at all in this book. This book is definitely a first step in the process of learning more advanced subjects.

As a beginner that needs to create simplistic databases, this book didn't even cover enough to attain this task. I found better help from the "help" menu within Access 2000 program itself, though not much better. This book may be helpful to someone that needs to maneuver in an already established Access database and doesn't need any additional modifications.

I teach database management using Access (not an Access training course), and this book enables introductory students to complete exercises without supervision and learn the basics and beyond. The Catapault books are some of the very best I've found for rank beginners to use on their own. Great exercise CD included with explicit instructions and modular lessons that go by quickly. Beginning students really like this book.

the book literally goes step by step for even the most simple task. It takes too long to learn even the most basic thing. Furthermore, the book is very procedure oriented. In other words, you learn to accomplish a very specific task without learning how to handle your own need.

This book is slow and inadequate if you want to learn about Microsoft Access. It tries to explain a sample database that comes on a CD with the book. And it is pathetic at that. They hardly ever explain how to create things from scratch. Stay away from this one.

This is an excellent book and a wonderful guide for beginners who want to gain a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of creating and maintaing a database. I felt like my hand was being held the whole way through with so many examples to work with. This book has really helped me out a lot as far as being able to create a database at my job. For more advanced functions such as creating and running macros, getting an introduction to SQL and Visual Basic, however, you will need to find another book that covers these topics.