Microsoft Access/Visual Basic Step by Step

Best Access VBA book I have ever bought, and I have bought several. Callahan is a great author, knows his application, and is great at explaining something that looks complicated, making it very simple to start programming your access forms and objects, jumping right into the nitty gritty. Useful even if you use Access 2003. I have not bought Access Vista, but it's as good and still functional for Access 2003.

I have worked with Access97 for several years now, but the person designing the databases worked strictly in macros. I had read enough of the developer's books to realize that isn't the proper way to go, but those books were over my head since I had never had any programming experience. This book fit the bill because it assumed I knew nothing else. I think if I master this book and the Access Macro & VBA handbook by Susann Novalis that I will then be ready for the developer's books. Novalis described it as: intro books - walking; intro VBA programming - running; developer books - flying. I really want my databases to fly, but I have to learn to run first.

Great tutorial with specific examples that walk you though customizing Access DBs with a business purpose in mind. Really great book, I highly reccommend it to anyone who is planning to learn how to build customized access applications. Worth every cent you spent on it.

I love this book. I learned more in 3 hours with this book than I did in a month of wading through various Access and VBA tomes. It is a perfect fit for the fairly technical Access user who is new to Visual Basic. Is your database dying under the weight of its macros? You need VBA and this is the book to teach it to you.

You can drown in the information available regarding Access and Visual Basic, and yet not learn what you need to know. This book is a perfect fit for one who is: comfortable in Access, new to Visual Basic, and fairly technical. Microsoft Access/Visual Basic Step by Step doesn't go into the massive detail of an "Unleashed" series book. It assumes you know how to use Access, unlike my "Teach Yourself Access 95" book. And it doesn't try to force-feed you an entire language, like "Visual Basic in 21 Days". Instead, it does one thing simply and well: It leads you through a path of ever-more sophisticated VB modifications to Access objects, until at the end, you look back and realize you can now have enough practice and "big picture" to learn any detail you wish