As a self-taught user, with some help from other self-taught users in my company, I found this book excellent. Ideas that I had a fuzzy grasp of are made clear.I suspect the teaching background of the authors contributes to the clear and concise descriptions of things and to the logical flow of the information.I also bought their Access VBA book, but haven't tackled it yet. I suspect it to be just as helpful. They are probably too basic for an experienced user, but wonderful for beginners.