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Microsoft Office User Specialist Microsoft Access 97 Exam Guide

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This book is a nice, concise summary of MOST of the material you'll see on the exam (I passed it on the first try with just this book) - however, this book totally ignores "Macros", and there are at least three questions on the exam about them. My advice: read the book, study macros on your own, and you'll do fine !!

This book does an excellent job of explaining most of the exam requirements; however, there are a few suprises. You need a good working knowledge of Access or you need to search through other Access books for info on switchboards and macros before you attempt the exam. Good luck!

Although well written, this study guide is not on par with the others in the QUE series. I found four mistakes in the first ten lessons. For example, you would use Control+'(Apostrophe) to have Access repeat the data from the previous record's field, not Control+;.

Topics are not well organized as there are often references to areas that will be covered later in the lesson or indeed later in the book. The lack of a section covering macros is a definite drawback for those preparing for the MOUS exam and I agree with one of the previous reviewers complaints about the CD files being read-only.

Fine as a general reference and "How To", but as an exam prep I would pass.

The book was great! Not only did it give me a study guide for the test, but I learned a couple new things along the way! Only thing I would add is to study Macros in addition to this book.

Of the many books I have on Access 97, this is one of the best. Not only does it prepare for certification, it also is an excellent reference and tutorial. The included CD-ROM is worth the price alone.

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Though the lessons go step-by-step, this is of no value unless you have a file open to do those steps. I did the practice labs after using two other books with hands-on exercises. Some of the "things to do" in the labs are not clearly written: Example-at the end of Lesson 3 "View the tables in the Table tab as Large Icons, Small Icons, File List with Details, and File List with Properties." File List with Properts is not one of the view options from the Table tab. This option is available when you click File, Open. Then your view options are Lists, Details, Properties and Preview.

Lesson 4 Lab has the following. "Use AutoForm to enter the data in Table 4.3" AutoForm can only be used to create forms, not to enter data. The statement should have been "Type the data in Table 4.3 into the form you created with AutoForm" or something to that effect.

Overall, this book is not what I would expect from an exam preparation guide.

I was pleased with the book. It prepared me for the MOUS test. Many of the questions on the test were the same style as the practice tests in the book. The book breaks things down according to what you will be tested on. A very good preparation tool for the MOUS test.

I'm hoping to do my Access Expert exam in about 3 weeks and so far I'm quite disappointed with this book. The most infuriating thing is that the databases are read-only which means that you can't really practise the exercises they give you. However I've noted the previous reviewer's comment about switchboards and will prepare accordingly .

Just got home from test site ... passed the MOUS Access97 Expert test! : ) I only used this book to prep for the exam. It has very clear examples and the exam questions were very simular. However, the exam covered Switchboards & Form command button controls & events, these were not in the book.