This is a great book for beginners that is highly visual, easy to understand, offers step by step excercises that guide you through the process, all while teaching you to do more complex things with Access such as subforms, complex queries, switchboards (menus), with an introduction to using VBA to deal with modules and procedures, data entry, error trapping, and data validation. Most of your learning will result from "doing", which is the great part because the actual excercises (with tons of visuals) are fun and easy to understand. The website also gives you the data files you need to do ALL the excercises on your own. This book will teach you things that will make for an impressive presentation of your database when it's time to design your own. Overall, it's a great book for beginners that teaches you to do a lot of cool and useful things with Access 2000, and I highly recommend it!