Microsoft Access 2010 Plain & Simple

by Curt Frye

Get the guide that makes learning Microsoft Access 2010 plain and simple! This full color, no-nonsense book shows you the quickest ways to build a database and sort information, using easy-to-follow steps and concise, straightforward language. You'll learn how out-of-the-box templates and reusable components make Access 2010 a fast and simple database solution. Here's WHAT you'll Here's HOW you'll learn

275 pages, Paperback

First published June 10, 2010

Reviews

[Angela · Rating 2 out of 5]

Easy to read, colorful format, bulleted to-do walk throughs. What more could you ask for?

How about some details.

This ended up being a lot more simplistic than I possibly imagined. Of all the Office products, Access is one I don't know as much about. I want to learn how to use it more effectively, since a lot of the jobs I'm wanting to move into require some database skills.

If you have a basic level of understanding for Access, this book will probably help you. It did show me how to do some things, but anything more elaborate (i.e. an explanation of what that particular column or key or text meant) was lacking. The book shows you, but doesn't tell you how or why you're doing something.

I learn best by doing and was really hoping this would provide me with a step by step way to create a database or "beautify" an Excel spreadsheet by importing into Access. Even creating a nice report would have been nice. While the book explains the basics of how to do those things, it doesn't help once you have it open and want to actually create.

I don't fault the author for this. The title clearly states Plain & Simple. It was just too plain and simple for my needs.

I plan to hold onto it once I start learning/understanding more, because I feel it may serve as a good refresher at times. Yet I still feel it may prove to be too simplistic once I know more.

[Kathleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've played around with Access in the past and wanted more of an understanding of what I was doing. I'm not sure that this book got me there. There were lots of pictures showing where exactly to click but very little explanation of how to create a database, how to figure out what you need in the database, relationships between fields, why you'd want to do something one way vs another, etc. Too much running through all the various formatting options (many of which are the same as/similar to those in other Office applications), but too little explanation of the building blocks. I did think the explanations were very clear and easy to understand and I liked that the Northwind database template (which comes with Access) is used as an example. This is the first Access book I've read so I'm not sure how the others stack up in comparison but I'm probably going to try to find another book with more explanations.

[Ariadna73 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought I would find a more thorough descriptions of the things I could do with MSAccess 2010; but this book is very basic. It is good for teachers or tutors; but difficult to follow to self-study.



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