Visual Basic for Applications Unleashed

by Paul McFedries

Intended for accomplished and expert users, this text covers VBA's new applications - Word, PowerPoint and Outlook - as well as VBA programming language, VBA interface design, VBA applications and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672310465
• ISBN13: 9780672310461
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 963 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A great book specially for Excel development

Why I've bought this book? I have read the comments of others who previously bought it and what convinced me was the fact that it was based more on Excel than on other MSOffice apps. This is what i was looking for. Unfortunately there are not many books on VBA for Office 97, and what exists is either too complex for a beginner or way too easy. I haven't finished the book yet, but for my own purposes is excellent and really straightforward to read. I have learned something new from the very first chapter of the book.

Almost Perfect

It was what I was looking for. The perfect book for users like me who had passed from Access Programming and wanted to get into Office's Objects world. Also in Outlook, with the right ammount of APIs for getting interested and buy more books. You read all the 963 pages easily, all of them without skipping.

Solid overview of VBA's applicaton integration potential

Very useful for me in some unanticipated areas: Introduction to API and Registry concepts; Command bar manipulation; Error handling and debugging strategies; Web topics; Appendices and the HTML Primer. Word's potential as an Automation client was not well represented. It is curious that an application so rich in objects, methods, properties, and constants receives such scant treatment when it appears to this user to be the ideal client for interface with users in the automated programs I am developing which involve database and file manipulation tasks. But the author treated the VB language well enough to provide the basic tools for discovery. Coming from a position of no formal computer or programming training, the code examples were especially concise and useful, and aptly illustrated the topics. The lack of typographic and grammatical errors was refreshing. Because of its strong, cohesive content, and good text editing, the book was a good read, and substantially increased my development skills in both grasping the big picture and working the details.

A good book for beginners to VBA

I finished this book in 14 days and learned a lot on the introductory of VBA in Office 97. I gave it 4 stars was because it did not cover a lot on database programming. It is a good book for those guys who wanted to perform 'Automation' in Office 97.

Comprehensive Intermediate to Advanced VBA

I found this book to explicitly cover the basics of building a solid foundation in object programming. Other books I have read provide a great introduction for the beginner who has only recorded macros. If you want a serious and in-depth guide from an overview of the absolute basics to the specifics of the MS Office object model, this is your tome.