If you have been looking for a beginners book that has a lot of easy to understand, step-by-step instructions and screen shots that show you how to complete and master Crystal Reports XI design techniques correctly, this is the book for you. The No Stress Tech Guide To Crystal Reports XI: For Beginners workbook, is a self-paced visual guide to learning Crystal Reports and is written from the perspective that the reader has not created a report before or has not used Crystal Reports. Crystal Reports is the most popular report writing software on the market. Our workbook is for the beginner and intermediate user. To help you become familiar with the options and features, this workbook contains over 600 illustrations that provide a visual tour of the software. Differences between the Standard and Professional editions are pointed out.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Very helpful book:
I bought the first addition of this book and learned page by page and did all exersises. I am experienced MS Access user, so it was easy for me to understand the material. After learning this book I began to work with manufacturing program that uses Crystal Report as a report writer. I cannot say that I immediately was able to create a new report, but I was able to modify existing reports, so they could better accomodate my company's requirements. Now, a year later, I can create a report from scratch. I... more info
fair - but better have som advanced tech background:
definately not a basic thing. I still find it easier to do queries in SQL, and then put in excel to prettify. SO the book wasnt that good :)
An excellent investment:
This book is particularly good for people who've worked a lot in Microsoft Access and who are just making the move to Crystal Reports because the author is extremely familiar with both applications. I've since added a second Crystal reference to my library, but this book's a great place to start as you're learning Crystal syntax and how Crystal 'thinks'.
A little less than adequate and a little more than annoying:
While admitting that this book does have some utility, I would be quick to add that it seems to have been crafted with little thought for the end user. The primary problem concerns the examples. Im all for learning by doing, but the methods used here create more headaches and hassle than a solid understanding of the program features. Essentially the reader is asked to create two or three files at the beginning of the book. Easy enough. Unfortunately the rest of the book consists of the reader making subtle... more info
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