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Hey, you know your way around Microsoft Access—so now dig into Access 2003 and really put your databases to work! This supremely organized reference packs all the information you need to master every major tool, task, and enhancement in Access 2003—without the fluff. Quickly advance your expertise constructing a database, importing and exporting data, building queries, linking data, using forms, creating reports and applications, publishing data on the Web, implementing security features, and other critical functions. You’ll gain hundreds of timesaving solutions and troubleshooting tips in concise, fast-answer format. You also get the entire book on CD-ROM, along with the Access Productivity Kit, featurin… More >>
Microsoft Office Access 2003 Inside Out
I don’t know why I am the first reader to rate this book. Although I learned something from this book, I regard it very low (lower than any Access books I have read). The author is obviously not qualified to write such book. He simply does not know how to start and explain the technical stuff. You need to take pain in learning something very simple. To be fair, I have to mention its merit: It seems to have contained more reference information.
Rating: 2 / 5
Almost all instructions in the book are based on the example database supplied with the CD. It’s almost impossible to read the book without referencing to the example database. It is badly written, too generic and it offers no answers to practical questions. It’s a book for beginners, but the title pretends otherwise. Here is just a random sentence from the book that illustrates how bad it is (and there are MANY of these)… Page 289; “As discussed earlier in this chapter, you know that to solve certain types of problems you must first build one query to define a subset of data from your tables and then use that query as input to another query to get the final answer”. Come ON!
Rating: 2 / 5
I think this is a very useful book, if you can figure out how to use it. A lot of comments have been made, both positive and negative. I agree with most of them. This book is both indispensible and very confusing at times.
I want to mention that my copy had some printing problems. A few of the pages are almost blank because they were printed so lightly, or are just streaks of ink. For example, pages 43, 46, 51, and 54 are all like this. There are more than that, but I don’t want to list every single one. This appears only to be a problem in the introductory section, which is mostly stuff I didn’t bother reading anyway (and if you’re not brand new to Access you don’t need it either).
Rating: 3 / 5
Typical Inside Out book. More useful than the others as I felt Access changed the most out of the Office suite.
Rating: 3 / 5
The real world examples and the thorough way the book is written has made me more money than I paid for it. This book is well written it has turn me a novice to a paid MS Access programmer. I highly recommend it
Rating: 5 / 5