Best Access 2003 Book - For Beginners...

[r4pugh]

Helllo Everyone,

I am a new Access 2003 user. In new i mean i just finished all the MS online
tutorials 30 minutes ago. Can anyone recommend the best book to use to start
creating tables, reports, forms, queries... I looked at Access 2003 for
dummies but it repeats alot of what the tutorials offered. I looked at the
voluminous Access Bibles and the like and got scared! Is there something in
the middle? Or should I buy a beginners guide and big reference book together?

 

[John W. Vinson]

Helllo Everyone,

I am a new Access 2003 user. In new i mean i just finished all the MS online
tutorials 30 minutes ago. Can anyone recommend the best book to use to start
creating tables, reports, forms, queries... I looked at Access 2003 for
dummies but it repeats alot of what the tutorials offered. I looked at the
voluminous Access Bibles and the like and got scared! Is there something in
the middle? Or should I buy a beginners guide and big reference book together?

"Best" requires a rubber ruler... <g> Learning styles differ; a book that
would be ideal for one person might be baffling (or trivial) for someone else.
Check out the references below, but your best bet might be to go to a good
bookstore (if you have one in your area), get a latte or a cup of tea, and
pull a stack of Access books off the shelf. Browse through them; try the index
to look up some reasonably complex feature (The Not in List Event for example)
to see if the index is usable.

I personally like John Viescas' Access 2003 Inside Out, but the caveats above
apply!

Jeff Conrad's resources page:
http://www.accessmvp.com/JConrad/accessjunkie/resources.html

The Access Web resources page:
http://www.mvps.org/access/resources/index.html

A free tutorial written by Crystal (MS Access MVP):
http://allenbrowne.com/casu-22.html

MVP Allen Browne's tutorials:
http://allenbrowne.com/links.html#Tutorials


And, of course, this newsgroup is a good place to get *specific* advice (i.e.
not "how do I create my database").

 

[r4pugh]

Thank You very much! I will goto B&N tonight and peruse the shelves...

 

[Larry Daugherty]

Also, the selfsame Jeff and John collaboraated on "Access 2007 Inside
Out"

HTH

 

[boblarson]

Larry:

That is Jeff Conrad and John VIESCAS (not Vinson) who wrote 2007 Inside/Out

--
Bob Larson
Free MS Access Tutorials and Samples at http://www.btabdevelopment.com

__________________________________

Also, the selfsame Jeff and John collaboraated on "Access 2007 Inside
Out"

HTH

 

[LERIDAV]

HI THERE I THINK I CAN SUGGEST TO YOU SOME HEELPFUL BOOKS I PURCHSED THE
ONLINE BOOKS FOR THE COURSE WHICH IN MY SYLLABUS SAYS WE WILL NOT NEED THEM
BUT THEY OFFER ALL THE INFO THAT YOU ARE REFERRING TOO AND I WILL DEFINITLEY
BE USING THEM AS WELL DID U PURCHASE THE BOOKS FOR THIS COURSE?

 

[Arvin Meyer MVP]

Helllo Everyone,
You might try John Viescas's Microsoft Access 2003 Inside Out:

http://tinyurl.com/r4tdeh

 

[Linq Adams via AccessMonster.com]

If you have a Border's Books in your area, I'd try that rather than B & N!

Our B & N is easily twice as large as our Border's, yet their programming
section is approximately is only about 20% as big as Border's.

And while I frequently get laughed at, for complete tyros I always recommend
getting an Access for Dummies type book. It's a really good way to learn the
very basic ABCs, especially the things like the name and function of various
objects. One of the biggest problems I see, in working here and the other
five forums I contribute to every day, is that the posters can't accurately
describe their problems/questions because they don't know the actual names of
things.

A "Dummy" book that I still refer to, after a decade of Access development,
is "Microsoft Access 2003 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies." It's billed
as "9 Books in 1" and it really is. At 800 pages it has sections on

Essential Concepts
Tables
Queries
Forms
Reports
MAcros
DB Administration
VBA Programming
Access Projects

and is written in easy to understand language.