Access Cookbook

Acknowledgments

No book is written without some help from outside sources, and this one is no exception. In this case, we had special help: Mary Chipman did the bulk of the conversion work in this edition, making sure each topic worked in Access 2002, creating current screen captures, and rewriting code when necessary. Needless to say, without Mary’s help, this book would never have been completed.

In addition, we’d like to thank Helen Feddema, Mike Gunderloy, and Dan Haught for their contributions to the first edition of this book, some of which remain (though altered for Access 2002). This book also went through a second edition, for Access 95, but was never revised for Access 97 or Access 2000. We appreciate the support of Ron Petrusha and the editorial team at O’Reilly and Associates for having the faith in the book, and in Access 2002, to allow us to revise and publish this edition of the book. We would also like to thank those fervent readers who sent many, many emails asking about Access 97 and Access 2000 versions of the book, which were never published. You know who you are, and we hope this revision satisfies your requests!

Special thanks also go to those who contributed suggestions and read chapters in their early stages, including Joe Maki, Sue Hoegemeier, and Jim Newman.

Jan Fransen did a terrific job creating a new chapter for this edition, covering data access pages—we’re very grateful to Jan for this important contribution.

We’d like to thank Michael Kaplan, a technical ...