Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Access 2003 [With CDROM]

Easy to read. Already used on one project. Just another manual in an excellent series.

Although this book is very good, as are most Que books, it appears that the book wasn't totally re-done for Access 2003.There are numerous sections in the book that discuss the new features of Access 2002 (not 2003).

Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Access 2003 by Roger Jennings is an impressively comprehensive and user friendly instruction manual ideal for those new to Microsoft Office Access 2003 software. A comprehensive reference on all the diverse features of Access 2003, and enhanced with new chapters on collaboration with Microsoft SharePoint Team Server, and creating or consuming XML Web Services, Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Access 2003 also includes Access 2003's new XML export/import features.

This amazing edition offers authoritative instruction from Roger Jennings, the author of this book, a recognized Access expert with years of Access and client/server database experience. The book's organization follows the development process for typical Access database applications. Detailed, step-by-step instructions with icons guide readers new to Access through table design, data addition, importing data from external sources, query design and execution, and designing data entry forms and printed reports. Chapters on advanced form and report design emphasize data-entry efficiency and presentation clarity...***This book also has new chapters on collaboration with Microsoft SharePoint Team Server, and creating or consuming XML Web services, both of which are hot topics. Another great thing about this book is, the accompanying CD! .CD includes all the book's Access queries, forms, reports, VBA code, projects, data access pages, and XML Web services; SQL Server/MSDE and Jet 4.0 versions of the Beckwith and OakLeaf Consumer Electronics (OCE) sample databases; Online transaction performance test application for MSDE and SQL Server 2000; Demonstration versions of third-party Access utilities. Web-based elements include live, data-intensive XML Web services that readers can use to test Access Web service consumers. This book did not disappoint it's readers!