Customer Reviews

Microsoft Office Access 2003 for Windows

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Make that 3.5 stars, to be fair.

I really enjoyed (yes, enjoyed) using this book. The chapters on filtering data (chap 10) and those on importing/exporting data (chap 15 & 16) are fantastic. However, the one on creating relationships (chap 7) is pretty weak. I can't believe that Steve Schwartz devoted only 9 pages to the most important underpinning of relational databases.

I also believe that the book would have been much better, had the author used specific projects (like the Northwind database which comes with Access) and stick with it/them.

Despite its failings, this is a very good book, but the student has to always be willing to get online and get info or tutorials for specific subjects not covered in depth in Schwartz's book.

little to know info, i tired (i meant to write "tried", but "tired" might be more correct!) learning access with it but could make heads or tails out of it.

if your a beginner , try the dummies series. it was excellent!

lots of pictures but almost no solid knowledge