Microsoft Office 2000/Visual Basic Programmer's Guide [With Customizable Sample Solutions, Appendices]

by David Shank, Tamra Myers, Mark Roberts

With detailed technical information delivered straight from the Microsoft Office 2000 documentation team, this practical and precise guide offers hands-on detail for everything from planning and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572319526
• ISBN13: 9781572319523
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Office-wide book

It's very hard to find a book on VBA that isn't based in one application, and doesn't begin at the 'Hello World' level. This book does neither. Instead it provides a good introduction to the object models of the Office applications, and includes well-written code examples. The breadth of content is impressive--from shared Office components to class modules. What a pity it's out of print!

Like walking the halls at microsoft

The intro materials in this book reveal that the authors were working side-by-side with the office development team as this book was written. Such direct access to the people who know the most about the product is unusual and it shows in this book. A collection of truly "useful" information and sample code. This is not a rehash of online help or a collection of the "basic" programming info found in a lot of reference books. The discussion generally gives you useful information and, the part I like the most, gives you sample code that works just the way it is in my own programs. This is not sample code of the type "MyControl.Backcolor = Red" that I see so much of. It appears that a real effort was made to write code that not only illustrates a concept, but that is usable in other contexts without much, or any, modification.Thanks for the resource....check it out - you will not be disappointed.

Info for developers

This is a book designed for people that already know something about office and vba and who want to take custom development to the next level with more advanced techniques

Excellent Office VBA Resource

This book really is the first one I've seen that gives you all the info you need to understand and use VBA in Office 2000 and get something done with it. There are literally hundreds of great code samples and clear explanations of what you need to know and, more importantly, why you need to know it. Far superior to most programming books on Office.

Awesome resource for Office developers!

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that this new edition of the Office Programmer's Guide is much better than the 1997 version. Here the authors have provided a nearly end-to-end discussion about how to create custom Microsoft Office solutions. This is not a book for beginners looking for information on the basics. Instead, this is a book created by developers, for developers. The book covers everything you need to know from how to design an Office solutions to how to create it to how to deploy it to users. It covers the new features in each of the Office applications, but also provides a ton of great information on how to work with features that have been around for awhile. Another pleasant surprise was the sample code and sample applications that come with the book. This book is packed with example after example that not only illustrate the concepts discussed, but that look to me like they were designed as re-usable chunks of code that you can cut and paste into your own programs with little or no modification. This has already proved to be a huge timesaver for me.I can't recommend this book highly enough. If you are doing any work to customize any of the Office applications or creating your own full-blown Office solutions, having this book is like having your own Office programming expert at your side as you work.