Prima's Official Guide to Seagate Crystal Reports 7

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Summary: Needs work
Review: As to the author's comments about this book being for "business users", well I am one and this book is still weak! I hadn't touched the tool before and thought that this book would be a help, but I found it to be little use. The topics that would have been of most use to a business user, including formulas and other advanced topics were poorly organized and written. As for the information about distributing reports, the author(s) fell well short of the mark when explaining the technology demonstrating a lack of understanding... If I had to do it over again, I would definitely give this one a miss... don't make the same mistake I did.

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Summary: Big Disapointment
Review: Big, Big, Big Disapointment. I anxiously awaited the arrival of this book with the hopes that it would help with many issues not covered in the Crystal Reports Manual. Unfortunately, this book was a big disapointment as I found it to be very similiar in content to the Crystal Reports Manual. Of the 50 plus computer books I have purchased from Amazon.com, this is the only lemon.

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Summary: Big Disapointment
Review: Big, Big, Big Disapointment. I anxiously awaited the arrival of this book with the hopes that it would help with many issues not covered in the Crystal Reports Manual. Unfortunately, this book was a big disapointment as I found it to be very similiar in content to the Crystal Reports Manual. Of the 50 plus computer books I have purchased from Amazon.com, this is the only lemon.

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Summary: Don't judge a book by it's description!
Review: I should have read a few more reviews before I purchased this book-- I recently started developing Crystal Reports from our CRM system and thought this book would help me get started quickly. I found that after about an hour it was useless and some parts concerning the web architecture were just plain wrong.

I don't understand how this title could have got so many good reviews-- Since a number of them mention the author's services, she must be using them to plug her business.

Take it from someone who would like to get a refund--leave it on the shelf.

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Summary: Prima's Official Guide to Seagate Crystal Reports 7
Review: If you are a VB developer and trying to get information to work with the Crystal Report in your VB code. Don't waste your money. There is nothing in the book.

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Summary: I can't say enough about how great this book is!!
Review: No other book about Crystal Reports can compare to Prima's Offical Guide. This book is the easiest to understand and is extremely user friendly. Since I recently took a BridgeBuilder training class for Crystal Reports I found that the book gave a lot of "extras" that made using Crystal Reports a breeze! I highly recommend this for anyone using Crystal Reports.

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Summary: Must-have valuable asset for any IT professional
Review: Prima's Official Guide to Seagate Reports 7 is a must-have valuable asset for any IT professional. It gives the best overview of report structure and creation I have seen. It's easy to harvest many practical put-to-use gems from the pages of this Crystal Reports guide. This well-planned guide will help you to provide information to your firm's decision makers in timely fashion because of the many useful examples that are provided. This guide presents basic topics in a clear manner and makes advanced topics easy to grasp.