Product Description

This practical, hands-on tutorial expertly builds your skills with Microsoft Office Access 2003—one step at a time! With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and practice exercises to learn exactly the tools and techniques you need. Topics include: building a database; linking to data from other Microsoft applications, databases, and HTML and XML files; using forms, filters, queries, and reports to capture and analyze data; helping to prevent data corruption; sharing data over the Web; and more. The book also helps you prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist exam for Access and makes a great on-the-job desk reference. The companion CD includes practice files you can use as you learn, as well as the Microsoft Office System Reference pack, which contains templates and clip art, an eBook of Step by Step, and four other eBooks: the Microsoft Office System Quick Reference; the Insider’s Guide to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003; the Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition; and Introducing the Tablet PC. Designed for beginning and intermediate level users, STEP BY STEP puts you in charge of developing the skills you need, exactly when you need them!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18482 in Books
• Brand: LITTLE BROWN AND COMPANY
• Published on: 2003-09-24
• Platform: No Operating System
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.68 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

About the Author
Online Training Solutions, Inc. (OTSI) is a traditional and electronic publishing company with years of experience in the creation, production, and delivery of computer software training. OTSI wrote Microsoft Windows® XP Step by Step, Microsoft FrontPage® Version 2002 Step by Step, and Microsoft Access Version 2002 Step by Step. The company publishes the Quick Course® and Practical Business Skills™ series of computer and business training products.

Customer Reviews

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Good Tool
This book is not very concise and I suspect this to be because it's geared toward the beginner and it wants you to play with the demos that's on the included CD to see how everything all comes together. In other words, "Trial by Fire" training method is how you learn.

It does, however, give you enough input to get you into trouble and have an adequate to professional looking database. There is one thing that it doesn't do. It doesn't STRESS, enough, the importance of Outling your ideas for the way you want your database design to look, feel, and be like. That is the most important factor you are going to have to consider, first.

Plagiarizing sample databases almost, always, proves to be a "must do" in order to get your database to work like the Pro's. Maybe, plagiarizing isn't the best word to use. Oh well, too late. Have fun!

Great buy!
I needed this to help me with my work and was happy with the price paid. Thanks for the fast delivery!