 See larger picture | No Stress Tech Guide to Crystal Reports XI: For Beginners
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Indera Murphy
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Product Description 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.
Featured Customer Reviews  fair - but better have som advanced tech background,
October 03, 2008
I still find it easier to do queries in SQL, and then put in excel to prettify. SO the book wasnt that good :) Book Well Worth the Price,
February 09, 2008
For me, Dr. Murphy's book was a real surprise. Really reasonably priced yet chock full of the kind of detail I need to learn an application like Crystal. I just completed Business Objects online training for CR XI to the tune of $1500. I have to say in all honesty that Dr. Murphy's book far surpasses BO's four course package. Hmm, let's see, I guess my employer could have saved about $1450.01 by buying this book first.
Another reviewer complained about reusing reports, a really unfounded gripe, I thought. The nice thing about Crystal Rpts XI is that report titles can include up to 200 characters, so the report builder can name the report very specifically for easy retrieval. At the end of your training with this book, if you work through the examples patiently, you wont need to be saving any of these reports. And if you place them in the Workbench as instructed they are extremely easy to find and reuse if you need to.
The screen shots are accurate, the discussion is detailed. She uses humor to kind of lessen the inherent tedium. Im through Chapter 6 now, the only criticism I have so far is that the layout is a little wide on the page for this type of binding. That and the word 'then' is used consistently in place of the word 'than' throughout. A small and excusable error! I have scanned the rest of the book and believe it very closely follows BO's own training, but with a far greater degree of accuracy and detail. I love this book! An excellent investment,
January 23, 2008 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,
January 14, 2008
One tip. If you buy this book. Do yourself a favor and use their naming conventions to the letter. Otherwise you'll find yourself spending excess time searching for files you previously created for the next exercise. proceed carefully,
August 20, 2007 This is the second book I used as a CR developer, and it got me rolling nicely. It could definitely be laid out better for beginners, so it gets 3 of 5 stars.
The information is accurate and extensive. The organization could be greatly improved. It is unclear where the author is explaining and where each exercise begins and ends.
The exercises of each chapter are based closely on the exercises of the previous chapter. If you deviate from an exercise to learn more or just to spice things up, you will be lost in the following chapters, so keep a "plain vanilla" copy of each completed exercise.
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