Best Book to Learn Forms, and Queries

[Jorlypong]

I understand the basics of Access but am still relatively new. I am ready to
move on from the basic form options and want to start using the controls,
macros, visual basic or whatever to capitalize on Access. What is the best
way to receive this training? What is the best book you would recommend
buying? Do you know any great sites online that have advanced video
training? Thanks for your suggestions!

 

[Dale Fye]

Personally, the best advice and techniques I've ever found come directly out
of these newsgroups. Sure, the books provide it in a more "professional"
atmosphere, but the MVPs and other experts on these sites are an invaluable
resource. Occasionally, you will strike a chord and get 3 or 4 different
techniques for doing something, and a good conversation will ensue. I like
to browse for the threads that have 10 or more posts, then see if they have
more than 2 people trying to resolve the same problem.

I still use the Access Developers Handbook (the 2000 edition) extensively.
There have obviously been some changes to Access, but everything that is in
the 2000 handbook still applies.

WRT to SQL, I really liked Joe Celko's "SQL for Smarties".

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Dale

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[John W. Vinson]

I understand the basics of Access but am still relatively new. I am ready to
move on from the basic form options and want to start using the controls,
macros, visual basic or whatever to capitalize on Access. What is the best
way to receive this training? What is the best book you would recommend
buying? Do you know any great sites online that have advanced video
training? Thanks for your suggestions!

There are quite a few links here:

Jeff Conrad's resources page:
http://www.accessmvp.com/JConrad/accessjunkie/resources.html

The Access Web resources page:
http://www.mvps.org/access/resources/index.html

A free tutorial written by Crystal (MS Access MVP):
http://allenbrowne.com/casu-22.html

MVP Allen Browne's tutorials:
http://allenbrowne.com/links.html#Tutorials