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Access 97 Programming for Windows for Dummies
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Author: Rob Krumm
List Price: $24.99
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ISBN: 1568846967
Publisher: For Dummies (31 March, 1997)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 14,277
Average Customer Rating: 3.31 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Excellent
It might be difficult for someone with no knowledge of Access or Visual Basic, but I thought the book was great. If you have some knwledge of Access, databases in general or VBA, VB, ADO, SQL, etc, this is a great reference with a lot of examples. It's by no means a comprehensive reference like an Access Developers Handbook. But it does give a ton of practical examples that goes deeper than the push button programming most Access Developers use. I would buy more books by this author.If you want the basics, theres probably Access For Dummies. But Access programming for Dummies is about the backend coding more than building from pulldown menus.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Not nearly as great as the Excel 97 Programming for Dummies
The Excel 97 Programming for Windows for Dummies by John Walkenbach was a great book for learning VBA for Excel, and it included coverage of some advanced topics. Each chapter kept building your understanding in a logical way until finally advanced topics were explained. Based on my experience with the Excel 97 Programming book, I purchased the Access 97 Programming book by Krumm. However I was quite disappointed with the Access 97 Programming book. It's coverage was spotty with some select in-depth examples. As an example, the coverage of the RunCommand was two example statements: DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdWindowCascade and DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdOptions. The explanation for RunCommands was as short as the two commands. It seemed that virtually every time I was looking for help on a VBA issue, there was nothing relevant in the Access 97 Programming for Windows for Dummies book.
Rating: 1 out of 5
more like VBA for people who know Access 97
This book wasn't very helpful at all. It tells you what the code is and how to write it, but not how to use it in design. It is however a decent VBA book. But I would suggest that if you want to learn VBA buying "Beginning Access 97 VBA" then maybe use this book as a reference guide. I didn't feel that it was a good design book though. Please keep in mind this is only my interpretation of the book.
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