How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office Access 2003 (How to Do Everything)

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Summary: don't waste your money
Review: I'm going to be blunt: this book totally sucks.
I have found it to be completely useless, and after a month of hoping it would help me understand Access 2003, I gave up and bought the Access 2003 for Dummies All-in-one Desk Reference.
I want to clarify: I am not your average home user getting myself in over my head. I have 6 years of experience in the IT industry, covering everything from hardware, OS support, and web design/programming. I just have never dove in to the deeper levels of databases.
This "How to Do Everything"(a.k.a. How to get really frustrated) book is cryptic and poorly written. The instructions are barely even instructions at all, and nothing is explained in depth. When I frantically went shopping for better, in addition to the "for Dummies" book, I picked up an Amazon competitor's $10 publication "Access 2003 in Easy Steps"(hey it was 10 bucks, why not?), which is more of just an introductory crash course - yet has told me more than the entire "How to Do Everything" book.
I would STRONGLY recommend not only definitely NOT buying this book(except for use as maybe a monitor riser), but investing in the "Access 2003 for Dummies All-in-one Desk Reference." It is clear, concise, sensibly organized, and even includes some base level VBA programming - which is great for anyone who's ever programmed before, but hasn't had experience with VB or VBA in particular.
I can't believe this thing even got published.