This book wouldn't have happened without the outstanding efforts of Carl Siechert, my manuscript and project editor, and Blake Wesley Whittington, the excellent technical editor on the book. Thanks also to the entire team at Siechert & Wood Professional Documentation--I know lots of other folks worked hard behind the scenes to get a quality product out on time. I also wish to send my warm regards to the family of the late Stan DeGulis. Stan was the original manuscript editor, and he provided me with lots of critical and excellent feedback in the early stages of this book project.
Special thanks to Ray McCann of RM Productions for graciously allowing me to use a major portion of his scheduling database for many of the advanced examples in the book. He actually uses a muchenhanced version of this database to run his business.
Thanks also to Sandra Haynes, the project editor at Microsoft Press, and to Jim Buyens, author of Running Microsoft FrontPage, who provided invaluable assistance on the "Publishing Data on the Web".
Chapter 1. Microsoft Access is a Database and More
Chapter 2. The Uses of Microsoft Access
Chapter 3. Touring Microsoft Access
Chapter 4. Designing a Database
Chapter 5. Building Your Database in Microsoft Access
Chapter 6. Modifying Your Database Desing
Chapter 7. Using Dagtasheets
Chapter 8. Adding Power with Select Queries
Chapter 9. Modifying Data with Action Queries
Chapter 10. Importing, Linking, and exporting Data
etc.