Access VBA Programming For Dummies

Alan Simpson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764574116 ISBN 13: 9780764574115

Publisher: For Dummies, 2004

This friendly, easy-to-use guide shows experienced Access users how to use VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) to build Access databases and applications, but also covers programming fundamentals for nonprogrammers Includes practical, ready-to-use VBA code examples that readers can type or copy and paste from the Web into their own database projects Explains basic VBA skills and concepts for nonprogrammers, such as procedures, variables, and loops Covers more advanced topics, such as record sets and other programming activities that are unique to Access programming Author has written more than ninety computer books and has been working with databases since the early 1980s

Product Description:

Paperback

From the Back Cover:

Find out how to make your databases do your bidding

The fun and easy way(R) to program for Access 2003, 2002, and2000

Even if you still think "code" means the way spies talk to eachother, this book will ease you into programming before you know it.Soon you'll be able to use VBA to make Access do things itcan't do by itself, customize your databases, and evenautomate mundane chores like converting numbers to words for checkprinting.

Discover how to:

• Use the VBA editor
• Work with variables, constants, and arrays
• Create recordsets with SQL
• Control lists with code and export data to files
• Debug your code
• Synchronize forms and reports

The Dummies Way

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear-out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun