>>Anyway, I'll get to the point. I first tried QUE when I was learning Powerbuilder and figured I would give them another shot with their VFP 5.0 book (partly because it was among the first released.) While the content of the 5.0 book was decent, I swore I would never buy another book from that publisher because of one reason: the index.
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>A little off subject note here,
>I too have a personal predjudice against Que books but for an entirely different reason. In a past life I worked as an instructor at a technical school teaching PC basics (Dos, Windows, Office, Netware 3.1x, Hardware, etc.) When I first started an 18 month evening course, the curriculum was laid out with mostly QUE beginner level books. I spent so much time bringing in outside material to use to explain things with the first section, I quickly picked a fight with administration about changing curriculum & textbooks used, and I won easily. Only thing that would make me buy a Que book for myself nowadays would be an exceptional author - and even then I would hang out in the bookstore reviewing it until the clerks threw me out ;)

do what i do w/ the clerks -- buy anything that looks interesting, review at home, and return everything that's not useful. they hate that even more.