Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA

By John Walkenbach

"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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764540726
• ISBN13: 9780764540721
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing
• Length: 1018 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

No PDF on this version of the book

There is one essential difference between this version and the 2002 version of the book. The 2003 version does NOT have a PDF copy of the book on the accompanying CDROM - the earlier version does!

Excellent book for beginner - intermediate / transitioning

This is a great book for those that are -Advanced Excel users, but Beginner / Intermediate with VBA -Programmers that are picking up VBA (Me) Not for -Basic Excel users -Advanced VBA programmers General Outline The author steps through the basics of spreadsheets and spreadsheet applications before introducing VBA, and does well covering most of the aspects of Excel. Good - This is a weighty tome, coming in at over 1,000 pages, and is an overall excellent reference to those that are starting to use VBA. - Contains excellent overview of using VBA with Excel, with extensive coverage of userforms and all their controls, and actual programming. - Gets deep into Excel specific features like charts and pivot tables - Excellent coverage of the differences (and possible problems) with different versions of Excel. - FAQ and Appendixes that are actually helpful and provide useful information Bad - Not too much to really pick on here, but I generally dislike books that are filled with some extraneous information, just to get that "Ultimate Reference" look about them. The chapter "Excel 2003:Where it came From", and the sometimes overly inflated explanations seemed liked padding. But otherwise a GREAT book.

If you buy only one VBA book...

My principal occupation for the last 13 years has revolved around Excel macros and VBA. Walkenbach's Excel books have been lifesavers. Just reading one page in this book pulled me out of a ticklish problem constructing a menu. The code examples are complete and always accurate (and well annotated). My first 15 minutes with this book saved me the cover price in not having to stop what I was doing to search the web for an obscure instruction. If you do any programming in Excel; buy this book!

Great book to read cover-tocover and use as a reference!

I was blown away by this book. When it arrived, I started thumbing through it and learned something new within five minutes. Though I've been an Excel user for years and have been doing programming in Excel for some time, I started reading this book from page one and couldn't stop.There is so much to learn from this book for all users (beginners through advanced) and it makes an excellent reference book.John writes in a way that is understandable, down-to-earth, and practical. His examples are real-life solutions to real problems.A great investment and highly recommended.