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Special Edition Using Crystal Reports 10 Review by Steve H
Best book I found out there for a novice but poorly edited
I am a beginner at Crystal Reports. I bought two other books before this one and I was left frustrated by both of them. I bought this book and within one day I was at least able create and edit reports. But this book is so poorly edited its laughable. It makes learning from this book a lot more difficult than it has to be. The book was obviously written by several different authors, some more capable than others. One chapter I am understanding everything on the first read and the next I am completely befuddled having to reread sections four or five times and finally figuring out what to do on my own. I get the sense that the book was hastily rehashed for this software version and the reader is at times left trying to make sense of instructions for earlier releases. There is hardly any sense of continutiy between the chapters and some exercises refer to prodedures that are yet to be covered. The book is rife with typos and it constantly references illustrations that are located pages away. Whats up with that? It wasn't to save paper. If the redundant paragraphs and unnecessarily wordy sentences were properly edited we could have saved a tree per book.
Que and its parent, Pearson are highly respected publishers. Its hard to believe they would release a $50 book of such poor quality. Nevertheless, the book delivered what I needed. If you are at your wit's end tryng to learn Crystal Reports consider buying this book for lack of anything more understandable.