W
elcome to the
Access 2007 Bible,
your personal guide to a powerful, easy-to-use
database-management system. This book is in its tenth revision and has been totally
rewritten for Microsoft Access 2007 with new text, new pictures, and a completely new
and improved set of example files.
This book examines Access 2007 with more examples than any other Access 2007 book. We
strongly believe that Microsoft Access is an excellent database manager and the best desktop and
workgroup database-development system available today. Our goal with this book is to share what
we know about Access and, in the process, to help make your work and your life easier.
This book contains everything you need in order to learn Microsoft Access to a mid-advanced
level. The book starts off with database basics and builds, chapter by chapter, on topics previously
covered. In places where it is essential that you understand previously covered topics, we present
the concepts again and review how to perform specific tasks before moving on. Although each
chapter is an integral part of the book as a whole, each chapter can also stand on its own and has
its own example files. You can read the book in any order you want, skipping from chapter to
chapter and from topic to topic. (Note that this book’s index is particularly thorough; you can refer
to the index to find the location of a particular topic you’re interested in.)
The examples in this book have been well thought out to simulate the types of tables, queries,
forms, and reports most people need to create when performing common business activities. There
are many notes, tips, and techniques (and even a few secrets) to help you better understand
Microsoft Access.
This book easily substitutes for the online help included with Access. This book guides you
through each task you need to perform with Access. This book follows a much more structured
approach than the Microsoft Access online help, going into more depth on almost every topic and
showing many different types of examples. You’re also going to find much more detail than in most
other books on Microsoft Access.
Is This Book for You.
We wrote this book for beginning, intermediate, and even advanced users of Microsoft Access
2007. With any product, most users start at the beginning. If, however, you’re already familiar with
Microsoft Access and you’ve worked with the sample files or other Access applications, you may
want to start with the later parts of this book. Note, however, that starting at the beginning of a
book is usually a good idea so you don’t miss out on the secrets and tips in the early chapters.
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