Mastering Access 2000

Here is everything you need to develop professional-level custom applications for Access 2000. The two Access 2000 Developer's Handbooks are logically divided into desktop and enterprise areas, and give exhaustive coverage of how to develop robust, bullet-proof Access applications for real-world situations. The Visual Basic Language title shows you how to use Visual Basic and VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) to create powerful applications through VB programming, including those that need to interact with other VBA-licensed products. Each book is accompanied by a CD that's loaded with reusable code and tools. Get three books, three CDs, and a $20 U.S. savings -- this is a package that needs to be on the bookshelf of every serious Access 2000 developer!

It's your information--what are you going to do with it? If you've decided on Microsoft's premier database program, Access 2000, do yourself a favor and consider getting Mastering Access 2000 as well. Written for all but the nimblest data wizards, it contains detailed instructions for everything from basic use to advanced programming, and it can help you get up to speed quickly and easily.

Well-organized and clearly illustrated, each set of procedures, such as searching databases, creating macros, and Visual Basic programming, practically jumps off the page and begs you to learn it. Though its chapters are set up in order of increasing complexity, the excellent indexing allows particular techniques to be found efficiently. The book even includes a "Master's Index," which alphabetizes features of Access and covers the "need to know" information for each one--a very nice touch.

Mastering Access 2000 comes with a CD-ROM full of sample database files, fonts, and shareware programs such as Check Writer 2000 to power up your information systems. Whether you use Access every day or it's been gathering electronic dust on your hard drive, you'll find yourself using it more effectively after adding Mastering Access 2000 to your reference shelf. --Rob Lightner