Excel VBA 24–Hour Trainer (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) - Softcover

Urtis, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047089069X ISBN 13: 9780470890691

Publisher: Wrox, 2011

Synopsis

Increase your productivity and save time and effort with Excel VBA

This unique book–and–DVD package prepares you to get more out of Excel by using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to automate your routine or labor–intensive Excel tasks. Microsoft Excel MVP and author Tom Urtis walks through a series of lessons while the accompanying DVD provides demos to complement each lesson. Urtis takes an in–depth look at how manual tasks in Excel can be programmed with VBA for greater speed, efficiency, and accuracy. You′ll learn how to use VBA to manipulate Excel in ways you may never have thought possible.

Excel VBA 24–Hour Trainer:

• Introduces you to VBA and discusses topics including object oriented programming, variable declaration, objects and collections, and arrays
• Teaches you how to write your own macros for programming loops, events, charts, pivot tables and pivot charts, and user–defined functions
• Shows you how to customize the look and feel of Excel with User Forms, Input Boxes, Message Boxes, and embedded controls
• Examines advanced topics including class modules, add–ins, and retrieving external data with ADO and SQL
• Demonstrates how to interact with other Office Applications from Excel, including Word, Access®, PowerPoint®, and Outlook®

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Note: As part of the print version of this title, video lessons are included on DVD. For e–book versions, video lessons can be accessed at wrox.com using a link provided in the interior of the e–book.

About this title

About the Author

Tom Urtis is a Microsoft Office developer, programmer, instructor, and Microsoft Excel MVP. Tom is founder of Atlas Programming Management (www.atlaspm.com), a Silicon Valley–based Office business solutions company specializing in Excel, providing consulting, development, training, and support of fully customized Office programs for a diverse international clientele.

From the Back Cover

Increase your productivity and save time and effort with Excel VBA

This unique book–and–DVD package prepares you to get more out of Excel by using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to automate your routine or labor–intensive Excel tasks. Microsoft Excel MVP and author Tom Urtis walks through a series of lessons while the accompanying DVD provides demos to complement each lesson. Urtis takes an in–depth look at how manual tasks in Excel can be programmed with VBA for greater speed, efficiency, and accuracy. You′ll learn how to use VBA to manipulate Excel in ways you may never have thought possible.

Excel VBA 24–Hour Trainer:

• Introduces you to VBA and discusses topics including object orientedprogramming, variable declaration, objects and collections, and arrays

• Teaches you how to write your own macros for programming loops, events, charts, pivot tables and pivot charts, and user–defined functions

• Shows you how to customize the look and feel of Excel with UserForms, Input Boxes, Message Boxes, and embedded controls

• Examines advanced topics including class modules, add–ins, and retrieving external data with ADO and SQL

• Demonstrates how to interact with other Office Applications from Excel, including Word, Access®, PowerPoint®, and Outlook®

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

On the DVD

Don′t just learn do!

The lessons within the book are accompanied by an instructional demonstration on the DVD.

• Write your own macros

• Make decisions with VBA

• Repeat actions with loops

• Automate procedures with worksheet and workbook events

• Work with arrays

• Create class modules

• Program charts and pivot tables

• Create add–ins

• Interact with Office applications Word, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook

• Manage external data

• Debug your code

Edition details

• Publisher: Wrox
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047089069X
• ISBN 13: 9780470890691
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432