Product Description

∗ This friendly, easy–to–use guide shows experienced Access users how to use
∗ VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) to build Access databases and applications, but also covers programming fundamentals for nonprogrammers
∗ Includes practical, ready–to–use VBA code examples that readers can type or copy and paste from the Web into their own database projects
∗ Explains basic VBA skills and concepts for nonprogrammers, such as procedures, variables, and loops
∗ Covers more advanced topics, such as record sets and other programming activities that are unique to Access programming
∗ Author has written more than ninety computer books and has been working with databases since the early 1980s

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #96198 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

From the Back Cover
Find out how to make your databases do your bidding

The fun and easy way® to program for Access 2003, 2002, and 2000

Even if you still think "code" means the way spies talk to each other, this book will ease you into programming before you know it. Soon you’ll be able to use VBA to make Access do things it can’t do by itself, customize your databases, and even automate mundane chores like converting numbers to words for check printing.

Discover how to:

• Use the VBA editor
• Work with variables, constants, and arrays
• Create recordsets with SQL
• Control lists with code and export data to files
• Debug your code
• Synchronize forms and reports

The Dummies Way

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear–out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun

About the Author
Alan Simpson is the author of over 90 computer books on databases, Windows, Web site design and development, programming, and networking. His books are published throughout the world in over a dozen languages and have millions of copies. Alan has also taught introductory and advanced computer programming courses at San Diego State University and the UCSD Extension. He has served as a consultant on high–technology, educationoriented projects for the United States Navy and Air Force. Despite that, Alan has no fancy job title because he has never had a real job.

Customer Reviews

VBA explained
As an Access Amateur, I have had a few false starts trying to learn VBA. I have often been left wondering what's the point? If I needed some code I would usually cheat by converting a macro or copy and paste code from other sources. Most of the books written to explain VBA disappoint. They start off simply enough and then fly off into gobbledegook. This book has finally helped me understand the value of VBA. Unlike its rivals this book understands novices' needs. It explains the sections of codes experts take for granted taking you through them gently. Even more helpful the code contained in this book is actually useful to develop an integrated database! This is by far the best book on VBA for Access I have read.

Mainly waffle and repetition
This book could not get to the point. There are so many pages of repeating principles. Ideas are explained and then explained again as if the reader is struggling with language. There is nothing for the user to actually do, so nothing is concrete nothing is structured. It seems a purely theoretical book that requires no doing from the user, but the necessity to hold all this information in the brain. A book with a more method and more activities is what I will search for. Really disappointing

Access VBA Programming for Dummies
It is of limited use to bigginer with lots ofunneccessary junk and repetation. It would have been more helpful if he had put meaningful examples and improve functionality.

Bokis not worth one third of its basic value.