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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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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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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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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