Product Description

"Today, no accomplished Excel programmer can afford to be without John′s book. The value of Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA is double most other books–simultaneously the premier reference and best learning tool for Excel VBA."
––Loren Abdulezer, Author of Excel Best Practices for Business

Everything you need to know about:
∗ Creating stellar UserForms and custom dialog box alternatives
∗ Working with VBA subprocedures and function procedures
∗ Incorporating event–handling and interactions with other applications
∗ Building user–friendly toolbars, menus, and help systems
∗ Manipulating files and Visual Basic components
∗ Understanding class modules
∗ Managing compatibility issues


Feel the power of VBA and Excel

No one can uncover Excel′s hidden capabilities like "Mr. Spreadsheet" himself. John Walkenbach begins this power user′s guide with a conceptual overview, an analysis of Excel application development, and a complete introduction to VBA. Then, he shows you how to customize Excel UserForms, develop new utilities, use VBA with charts and pivot tables, create event–handling applications, and much more. If you′re fairly new to Excel programming, here′s the foundation you need. If you′re already a VBA veteran, you can start mining a rich lode of programming ideas right away.

CD–ROM Includes
∗ Trial version of the author′s award–winning Power Utility Pak
∗ Over one hundred example Excel workbooks from the book


System Requirements: PC running Windows 2000 SP3 or later, or Windows XP(TM) or later. Microsoft Excel 2003. See the "What′s on the CD" Appendix for details and complete system requirements.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48367 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1056 pages

From the Back Cover
"Today, no accomplished Excel programmer can afford to be without John’s book. The value of Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA is double most other books–simultaneously the premier reference and best learning tool for Excel VBA."
—Loren Abdulezer, Author of Excel Best Practices for Business

Everything you need to know about:

• Creating stellar UserForms and custom dialog box alternatives
• Working with VBA subprocedures and function procedures
• Incorporating event–handling and interactions with other applications
• Building user–friendly toolbars, menus, and help systems
• Manipulating files and Visual Basic® components
• Understanding class modules
• Managing compatibility issues

Feel the power of VBA and Excel

No one can uncover Excel’s hidden capabilities like "Mr. Spreadsheet" himself. John Walkenbach begins this power user’s guide with a conceptual overview, an analysis of Excel application development, and a complete introduction to VBA. Then, he shows you how to customize Excel UserForms, develop new utilities, use VBA with charts and pivot tables, create event–handling applications, and much more. If you’re fairly new to Excel programming, here’s the foundation you need. If you’re already a VBA veteran, you can start mining a rich lode of programming ideas right away.

CD–ROM Includes

• Trial version of the author’s award–winning Power Utility Pak
• Over one hundred example Excel workbooks from the book

System Requirements: PC running Windows® 2000 SP3 or later, or Windows XP™ or later. Microsoft Excel 2003. See the "What’s on the CD" Appendix for details and complete system requirements.

About the Author
John Walkenbach, principal of JWalk and Associates Inc., is a leading authority on spreadsheet software and creator of the award–winning Power Utility Pak. He has written more than 30 spreadsheet books and more than 300 articles and reviews for publications including PC World, InfoWorld, and Windows, and maintains the popular Spreadsheet Page at www.j–walk.com/ss.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Reference For using VBA with Excel
I am a pretty experienced Access developer but recently needed to use excel for many of the reports and forms. The info on the excel object model, charts and pivot tables was the main reason I bought the book and this was all well laid out and easy to follow.

What really impressed me was the info on interacting with other Aps and the API / Registry; more comprehensive than many other MS Office development book I have seen.

On the negative side the info on ADO and Class modules was too sketchy for beginners and too basic for those with Access experience to be useful and would be better ignored

Excellent and comprehensive
I am a self-taught VBA programmer with moderate to good understanding of VBA and was looking for a book to take me to the next skill level. Most books I have bought so far (about 5!) have been relatively hopeless, being either too basic or far too technical.

However, John Walkenbach's book is in a league of its own. It starts off simply enough but rapidly and effortlessly works up to more complex ideas and scripts. He provides you with lots of handy tips and tricks and ensures you have a good grounding in each topic before advancing. His language is simple and easy to read with lots of working examples and a wide array of topics.

This book is really excellent and I can HIGHLY recommend it for a user of almost any skill level. I also highly recommend his book on Excel 2003 Formulas. In combination these two books will help you comfortably conquer Excel.

Indexes
I like this book it have a lot of exampels, but what they totaly forgoten is to build a good Index on where to find diffrent subjects in the book. One have to choose the chapter more likely to contain the information one is searching for and go throug it.