Access 97 SECRETS® (Paperback)

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Product Description

Access 97 is finally out -- and so is Access 97 SECRETS, chock full of tips, tricks, and strategies that didn't make it into the official manuals and other guides. Here, Access experts Cary N. Prague, William C. Amo, and James Foxall reveal all they uncovered in their rare, prerelease examination of the latest version of Microsoft's popular and powerful database application. Plus, on the book's accompanying bonus CD-ROM, you get hand-picked demo software and ready-to-use Access resources, including a contact manager, libraries, add-on wizards, and business accounting utilities.

About the Author

William C. Amo is a database consultant specializing in Microsoft SQL Server and the author of Transact-SQL: Programming Microsoft SQL Server 7.0.

; Cary N. Prague is an internationally known best-selling author and lecturer in the database industry. He is the president of Database Creations, Inc., the world's largest Microsoft Access add-on company. This direct mail company creates and markets add-on software, books, and video training for personal computer databases.

Under Cary's leadership, Database Creations has developed and marketed many add-on software products for Microsoft Access, including Yes! I Can Run My Business, a business sales and accounting program and winner of the 1998 Access Advisor Magazine Readers Choice award for best accounting application; Check Writer financial software, winner of the Microsoft Network award for best Access Application; the EZ Access line of developer products; the Access Business Forms Library distributed by Microsoft with Access 2.0 upgrades; TabMaster Pro Wizard; User Interface Construction Kit, winner of the 1996 Access Advisor Readers Choice award; the Calendar Construction Kit; the Picture Builder Add-On Picture Pack; and the Command Bar Image Editor and Image Pack. databasecreations.com.

Cary also manages a successful consulting company, a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider specializing in Microsoft Access applications. his local and national clients include many Fortune 500 software companies, manufacturers, defense contractors, and insurance industry companies. His client list includes Microsoft, Borland International, ABB-Combustion Engineering, Smith & Wesson Firearms, Office Max, Continental Airlines, Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, Otis Elevator, the State of Connecticut, United Healthcare, Travelers Insurance, Omar Coffee, Rockwell International, and SNET telephone company.

Formerly Cary held numerous management positions incorporate information systems, including Director of Managed Care Reporting for MetraHealth, Director of Software productivity at Travelers Insurance where he was responsible for software support and training for 35,000 end users, Director in Corporate Finance where he was responsible for the selection and installation of Fixed Asset and Payroll Systems and manager of Information Centers for Northeast Utilities.

He is one of the best-selling authors in the computer database management market (with sales of nearly one million), having written more than thirty-five books on software, including Microsoft Access, Borland's dBASE IV, Paradox, R:Base, and Framework. pl?idgbook:0-7645-3035-6:book-idg::uidg256300">Microsoft Access Bible, recently number one on the Ingram Best-Selling Database Titles list and on several top national best-seller lists, including amazon.pl?idgbook:0-7645-3043-7:book-idg::uidg256300">Access 97 Secrets; dBASE for Windows Handbook; dBASE IV Programming, winner of the Computer Press Association's Book of the Year award for Best Software Specific Book; and Everyman's Database Primer Featuring dBASE IV. He is currently writing several new Access 2000 books.

Cary is certified in access as a Microsoft Certified professional and has passed the MOUS test in end-user subjects in Access and Word. He is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences around the country, and he has been voted the best speaker by the attendees of several national conferences. recently he was a speaker for Microsoft sponsored conferences in Hawaii, Phoenix, Chicago, Toronto, Palm Springs, Boston, and Orlando. He has also spoken at Borland's database conference, Digital Consulting's Database World, Microsoft's Developer Days, Computerland's Technomics Conference, COMDEX, and COMPAQ Computer's Innovate. He was a contributing editor to Access Advisor magazine and continues to write for the publication.

Cary holds a master's degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an M.B.A. and Bachelor of Accounting from the University of Connecticut. He is also a Certified Data Processor.;

James D. , a software development firm in Omaha, Nebraska, specializing in database applications. He is responsible for management of all the company's Windows application development, including its flagship product, Pursuit. Foxall is an international speaker on Microsoft Access and holds Microsoft certification in Microsoft Access and Visual Basic.

In addition to speaking and writing, Foxall has been interviewed on numerous television news shows, in trade publications, and in newspaper articles. When not writing about writing code, Foxall enjoys fishing, playing chess, camping, hunting for antiques with his wife Laura, and -- believe it or not -- writing code.

Foxall can be reached via e-mail.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1091 pages
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing (February 18, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764530437
• ISBN-13: 978-0764530432
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,090,888 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book - is it dated?, February 3, 2000

By	Oavde "oavde" (Australia) - See all my reviews

This is a great book. Where so many books are full of waffle this cuts to the chase. Secrets and tips are useful and break the book up. I agree it is good for the beginner / intermediate. It has probably dated since I bought it, however Access 97 is just about the same as it was back then.

If you are quite advanced I would say this book is not enough, but it is a good foundation. Otherwise I think you will be delighted with this book.

Everyone at work kept stealing it from me even when I hid it under my desk in a pile of rubbish, so now I keep it at home.

Good luck!

PS: Ask yourself - why would I bother writing a review of a book I bought years ago?

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good book, June 26, 1998

By	[e-mail] (Philippines) - See all my reviews

I've read this book and its pretty good. For an intermediate to advanced, it covers a lot of topics from basic form design, client/server programming to HTML programming. it discusses also a lot of secret tips regarding Access 97 programming. Although esentially a pretty good book, what the book lacks is more in depth discussion regarding its VBA and DAO topics.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excelent Book. Gives real life time saving secrets., March 7, 2000

By A Customer

Excellent book. Shows real life tips and tricks that help the advanced Access developer get more productivity.