Written by award-winning author Peter Norton and accomplished programmer Virginia Andersen, this book provides expert advice using a friendly, step-by-step approach. You'll learn how to create your own Access database applications and enhance them to meet user needs. The real-world sample databases on the CD-ROM enable you to learn how to customize reports, add graphics to interfaces, and adapt queries to database contents. Advanced techniques, such as using wizards as shortcuts to create objects, are also covered. Whether you're just starting out or have years of programming experience, Peter Norton's guide to Access 97 Programming has all the information you need to begin creating your own customized Access 97 applications!
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The programmer with the cherubic face and perennially folded arms returns to escort the casual Access user into the realm of more serious database programming. Access allows several routes to this destination too: you can use the program's Wizards to prepare customized database applications from your Access objects, use SQL commands, use macros to automate certain maintenance tasks, or use Visual Basic for Applications, the programming language included with Access 97 and with Office 97 to prepare very full-featured database applications.
After a friendly overview that helps you figure out which programming tools are best suited to which tasks, the book delves further into procedures, multi-table database applications, and other serious tasks such as advanced reporting. The book rounds it all out with a discussion of using the programming tools to communicate with other Office 97 applications (such as Word and Excel) and with a brief overview of using Access applications on the World Wide Web. This book is a good introduction to Access programming for the user who needs to move beyond basic use of the program and write applications that can solve more complex business problems.
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With the release of Access 97 and its use of Visual Basic for Applications, more users will be looking for a straight-forward book that leads them through the basics of programming on Access 97-while still covering the more advanced topics. Following the success of the best-selling Peter Norton Premier series, this complete reference takes a user-friendly approach to allow beginners to learn at their own pace, while advanced users can quickly access the techniques and information they need. - Covers key development areas, including VBA, ActiveX, ADO, OLE DB, ODBCDirect, replication, code libraries, reports, switchboards, toolbar objects, wizards, and more
- Real-world programming techniques and step-by-step format make learning easy
- CD-ROM contains source code and sample database applications
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This review is from: Peter Norton's Guide to Access 97 Programming (Paperback)
Be careful when you buy this book. It has excellent references to some of the most common tasks for Access 97 VBA. However, as I have found in other books on this subject, the publisher seems to have rushed this to the shelf.There are some typo errors on some of the examples that would cause problems with using the code. Aside from that, this book has answers to the most common problems in Access database usage.
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Dreadful!,
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This review is from: Peter Norton's Guide to Access 97 Programming (Paperback)
Topic coverage is very thin; often the MS online "unhelp" contained more information. Try Alison Balter's book on the same topic rather throw your money down this rat hole!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A useful book with a lot of examples,
This review is from: Peter Norton's Guide to Access 97 Programming (Paperback)
This book is clearly not for the beginners, as implied in the title - a guide. It is however useful both for the intermediate and the advanced. Style and organisation are somewhat debatable but once they are grasped, it is near- joy to press on with the chapters. In conclusion, it could have been better laid-out.
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