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Paperback Microsoft Excel VBA Programming for the Absolute Beginner [With CD-ROM] Book

ISBN: 1592007295

ISBN13: 9781592007295

Microsoft Excel VBA Programming for the Absolute Beginner [With CD-ROM]

Written specifically with the beginner in mind, "Microsoft Excel VBA for the Absolute Beginner, Second Edition" is the follow up to the most successful and best selling title in the Absolute Beginner series. The book contains completely updated information written for the current version of Excel, Excel 2003. "Microsoft Excel VBA for the Absolute Beginner, Second Edition," is geared towards both students taking introductory programming courses, as well as professionals who frequently use spreadsheets and want to expand their knowledge of the capabilities of Excel by writing their own programs. In recent years, programming has experienced a surge unlike any other technical skill, due to both advancements in technology and the declining cost of computer hardware and software. This boom has created a need for more programmers and this book teaches programming using a very popular software package, making it perfect for new programmers. "Microsoft Excel VBA for the Absolute Beginner, Second Edition," uses the Excel VBA language to provide readers with an introduction to programming. Concentrating on introductory programming topics and good programming practices, the book uses the VBA Excel language and the creation of simple games to teach these topics and practices. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
Excellent book for beginners

As a self-taught user, with some help from other self-taught users in my company, I found this book excellent. Ideas that I had a fuzzy grasp of are made clear. I suspect the teaching background of the authors contributes to the clear and concise descriptions of things and to the logical flow of the information. I also bought their Access VBA book, but haven't tackled it yet. I suspect it to be just as helpful. They are...

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Rated 4 stars
Not for beginners, but very good

I'd have to agree that this book is not appropriately named. I found understanding the code more difficult than several books aimed at a moderately advanced audience, such as Walkenbach's Power Programming. That said, I found the book offered unique angles and insights not dealt with in other books, and in showing how games can be programmed in Excel, really provided a broad view of the power and flexibility inherent in...

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Rated 5 stars
Finally someone who can teach to beginners

I tell you, I must have bought a dozen books related to learning VBA for Excel.This is the first and only one that I can't put down because this author can start from zero and build up without loosing people.Thanks

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Rated 5 stars
Previous review is incorrect

You do not need Visual studio installed to run the projects in this book. The errors mentioned in the previous review are caused by changes in the path to the VBA string functions when using Windows XP. You can always just enter the code as is written in the book into a new VBA project using Excel and it will run fine. But the simplest solution is this:1.) Open the project that is giving you trouble.2.) Select 'Move or Copy...

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