This 200-page book serves as a good introduction for students (like me) who are tackling their first IT project in Access. The book covers all the major aspects of a database, such as tables, relationships, forms, queries and reports. You are guided through each of these topics as you assemble a fully working system. The final sections cover creating a switchboard, linking the database with Word and Excel and using Visual Basic. The building of the project flows nicely, although at times it is unclear what she is referring to. The second part of consists of 3 chapters. The first covers project ideas, which is useful when working out what to do your project on. The second cover the systems covers the systems life cycle. The final third section covers writing the project report in Word, and shows how to generate an automatic table of contents and use styles, this is very useful when trying to create a consistent looking report. Appendix A has a sample project with annotations showing what a typical project should look like. This is a very useful guide. Appendix B shows the mark scheme, this is useful but could have been translated into 'plain English'.
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Aug 5th, 2000
