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Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 VISUALLY

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I bought this book to quickly get a "good" feel of manipulating and creating DBs in Access. Because each instruction on every page displays what the author is conveying I never "wondered" what they were trying to do. It's a great beginning book to assist you in teaching yourself, but doesn't go into exporting data or advance cross-tab queries. If they made an advance version it would only complement this great start! I highly recommend it for starting out!

Excellent graphics, easy on your eyes, if you don't know access this is a must buy. If you are looking to get advance skill in access this may not provide you that. This book provides you with the essential knowledge to run and use fundamentals of access.

I knew the power of Access but did not think I could create a program on my own....until I read this book. This book is easy to follow and understand. It is written and designed in a way that any novice can successfully develop a program. I'm now hoping for an advanced version in the same format!!

Perhaps if you have never used Excel *AND* have no idea what a relational database is, this would be a worthwhile purchase. Otherwise I hope there are other Access 2000 books out there for computer professional, power users, and intelligent users to learn the tricks of the trade.

While I have a light background in dBase and relational databases, I needed to come up to speed quickly on how to best exploit Access 2000. This book was not a good match. Pages spent on how to delete a column, change a font, include a picture, etc. I went through the 300 page book in just over 4 hours. While I now have enough of an introduction to Access to put databases togehter, I am now in search of a reference book.

Besides the lack of content, I found the book disjointed: to much typing of data (most books include sample databases on CD); and missed steps in putting the sample databases together.

This is the most basic of database 'how to' books. If you have no idea what a database is, buy this book. I had hoped to use it to create a fairly basic database, but it is so rudimentary that it did not include information that I need. My knowledge of databases is not great, but this book was not helpful to me. If I had never heard the term 'database', this book would have been helpful to me.

I bought this book after taking a very basic class that covered Access. I wanted to use it as a reference tool to remember how to use the features in Access I had learned. Sadly, the book was SO basic, I couldn't review anything I had learned. If you have never used Access, it could help you learn a little- but using the wizards only. If you want to do anything on your own, don't buy this book! It was disappointing.

Great book for starting out but really, do you need to know how to cut and paste? Also, would have been improved greatly if either the author used the same data for all the examples or included a CD with data sets. Sometimes she would use one database for an exercise but demonstrate using another. Wished she also spent more time on linking and relationships - that's what the beauty of a relational database is. Otherwise, just use Excel.

Este libro es recomendable para personas que nunca han usado el MS Access ,en el contenido se explica como hacer tablas ,formularios,cuestionarios y reportes. La forma visual en que es explicado cada tema,hacen de este libro un articulo muy atractivo para los usuarios de base de datos . El material grafico es una de las ventajas con que cuenta este ejemplar y hace que sea menos pesado durante el ciclo de aprendizaje y ademas mantienen al lector siempre con ansias de aprender algo mas cada momento