I bought and read through this book while learning about Access 2010. While the book was fair priced and offered very clear images and popular questions with detailed steps. I think this book would be a great on the book shelf to keep near you when working on Access or just wanting to know what features are available on Access.



The only problem I have is that the book while showing steps how to complete a step, does not include all of the details. For example, there is a step that asked to add a database or enter in a value, but the step is described as "enter a value" instead of "enter in a numerical value". I know it's nit picking but as I was reading through the steps I was reading felt very vague, as if I was reading a manual written by a expert Access person who didn't want to take the time explaining each step.



I should note that I have read 3 of Microsoft's "Step by Step" and "Build a program now" series mostly for programming languages but this is my first "Plain & Simple" book. I was looking for a quick intro to Access 2010 and features but following along with the steps were not as clear as I expected. I found that from Microsoft's site there are more tutorials available on Access as well as a "Step by Step" series to run through these on a greater detail.