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I bought a used book on Access 2007 (a different book than I'm getting in the "Office 2007 Library" previously mentioned). When this book was new, it included a data disc, but the disc is missing. No surprise there - this is a 12-year-old book. But the book does say that the data is also available online and gives an address. That's what I was counting on when I made the purchase.

However, the link to the data says that it is no longer available. This ticks me off. The data was probably all of 2 MB in size and shouldn't have cost the publisher anything at all to keep online in some sort of a historic repository. I haven't been able to find the data anywhere else, either.

Given that this is a college-level book of exercises for Access 2007, I can't do any of the exercises and the book is useless.

I emailed the publisher to ask if they had a copy that they could send me, and they just wrote back and gave me a very polite "No." So, "Microsoft Access 2007" by "Rutkosky / Rutkosky" is now going into the trash. @#%!

The lesson here? Books are forever, but small data files on which a book's usefulness may depend are NOT.




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