Microsoft Access/Visual Basic Step by Step [Paperback]

Evan Callahan (Author)

Book Description

Series: Step-By-Step | Publication Date: January 1, 1996

The perfect book for users who want to get to the heart of Access to help them build personalized and customized Access solutions. Fifteen lessons methodically teach readers, in the highly successful Step By Step format, how to use this built-in graphical programming language to customize Access to work the way they do.

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About the Author

Evan Callahan is President of Callahan Software Solutions, a consultancy focusing on database and other software solutions and technical communications. Clients have included Microsoft, General Dynamics, Online Training Solutions, and a variety of accounting, real estate, and environmental firms. He is the author of "Troubleshooting Your Web Page" and "Microsoft Access Visual Basic for Applications Step by Step", published by Microsoft Press. Evan worked for Microsoft Corporation from 1989 to 1995, where he created documentation and sample applications for Microsoft Access and Visual Basic. His background includes extensive experience in database design, technical communications, web-based marketing, and management.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; Pap/Dskt edition (January 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556158904
• ISBN-13: 978-1556158902
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #805,525 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for Some, Good for Many, August 1, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Access/Visual Basic Step by Step (Paperback)

You can drown in the information available regarding Access and Visual Basic, and yet not learn what you need to know. This book is a perfect fit for one who is: comfortable in Access, new to Visual Basic, and fairly technical.

Microsoft Access/Visual Basic Step by Step doesn't go into the massive detail of an "Unleashed" series book. It assumes you know how to use Access, unlike my "Teach Yourself Access 95" book. And it doesn't try to force-feed you an entire language, like "Visual Basic in 21 Days". Instead, it does one thing simply and well: It leads you through a path of ever-more sophisticated VB modifications to Access objects, until at the end, you look back and realize you can now have enough practice and "big picture" to learn any detail you wish

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All the information you need to customized your Access DB, March 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Access/Visual Basic Step by Step (Paperback)

Great tutorial with specific examples that walk you though customizing Access DBs with a business purpose in mind. Really great book, I highly reccommend it to anyone who is planning to learn how to build customized access applications. Worth every cent you spent on it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like to "learn by doing", this is the book for you., January 28, 1998

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This review is from: Microsoft Access/Visual Basic Step by Step (Paperback)

I love this book. I learned more in 3 hours with this book than I did in a month of wading through various Access and VBA tomes. It is a perfect fit for the fairly technical Access user who is new to Visual Basic. Is your database dying under the weight of its macros? You need VBA and this is the book to teach it to you.