Alison Balter's Mastering Access 2002 Desktop Development is an Excellent book. I also bought her second book Mastering Access 2002 Enterprise Development, which continues where the other left off. If you haven't done anything with Access, you may want to start with Access 2002 for Dummies. But these two books have a very broad area of information. They are a good reference too, since you can search the index and go right where you need, to learn. If it's not in there, it at least gives you a good start, so you know where to look on this site.