The following
book list is provided as an aide to those planning to take one of our
courses. Hopefully, it will prove useful to others as well. While not
required, per se, for our classes you will need to purchase a book or
two for use in studying Access after your class and as a reference.
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books. We have marked especially recommended books with an *;
top choices with **. Our recommendations are based on value
for money.
Books Forum
The
material covered in our Introductory Microsoft Access courses can be
found in the following inexpensive books. They are not required for
class but you may want to place on order for use after your class.
Frye,
Curtis (2001) *
Microsoft Access 2002 Plain and Simple.
Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press. ISBN 0-7356-1454-7. [ a
simple, visual type book. Good for beginners. We chose this book
because it has the broadest topic coverage of the "visual"
type books we looked at.]
Frye,
Curtis (2007) *
Microsoft Access 2007 Plain and Simple.
Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press. ISBN 0-7356-2292-2. [ updated
for 2007 and still an excellent choice.]
In
addition we recommend that each organization or group have a copy of
the following available for their use. It is an excellent
intermediate level reference.
Prague, Cary
N., Michael R. Irwin and Jennifer Reardon (2004) **
Access 2003 Bible.
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing. ISBN 0-7645-3986-8. [ the, well,
bible for Microsoft Access. Very thorough
reference at the intermediate level. Good for both users and developers.
If
you are going to be using Access extensively you should have this
book. Groups taking our classes should own a copy of this book or its
equivalent. ] Buy
this book at Amazon.com...
The following are some
additional Microsoft Access books we have used.
Balter, Alison
(1999) * Mastering
Microsoft Access 2000 Development.
Indianapolis, IN: Sams Publishing. ISBN 0-672-31484-3. [
oriented to developers as opposed to users. Good technical reference
with lots of short code examples. By a well known Access and FoxPro
trainer. ] Buy
this book at Amazon.com...
Duffy, Tim
(2000) Microsoft
Access 2000.Microsoft
Certified Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. ISBN
0-201-45916-7. [ Strongly oriented to beginning Microsoft
Office users. Former
text for this course. One of the better "visual" type
books on Access. Text and exercises follow Microsoft Official
Curriculum for Proficient level of MOUS exam. ]
Hahn, Pamela
Rice, and Keith Giddeon. (1999) How
to use Microsoft Access 2000.
Indianapolis, IN: Sams Publishing. ISBN 0-672-31589-0. [ simple
and straightforward
"visual" type book on MS Access. ]
McFedries,
Paul (2005) Microsoft
Access 2003 Forms, Reports and Queries.
Indianapolis, IN: Que Publishing. ISBN 0-7897-3152-5. [Fairly
typical Access book, but focused strictly on Forms, Reports and
Queries as the title states.
Although reasonably well written it does not really go into advanced
detail. You
may want to buy this book to accompany our AIN104
(Introduction to Access Reports and Forms) classes. ]Buy
this book at Amazon.com...
Wempen, Faith (1999) *
Teach Yourself Microsoft Access 2000 in 10 Minutes.
Indianapolis, IN: Sams Publishing. ISBN 0-672-31487-8. [ very good
value for the money. An inexpensive, and brief, but well done little
introduction to Access. We often recommend this book to students in
our classes. ]Buy
this book at Amazon.com...
Related
book lists:
The following
book lists
on this site may prove of interest as well: MS
Access Macros,
MS
Access SQL
and Database
Design.
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