Excel 2000 VBA Programmers Reference

Green

ISBN 10: 1861002548 / ISBN 13: 9781861002549

Published by John Wiley and Sons, 2003

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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Seller Inventory # CHL2134765

Bibliographic Details

Title: Excel 2000 VBA Programmers Reference

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons

Publication Date: 2003

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used; Very Good

About this title

Synopsis:

Excel 2000 is an import part of the Office 2000 program suite, and will be available in the Premium, Professional, Standard and Small Business editions of Office 2000. Excel has traditionally been the Office suite spreadsheet program par excellence. It still remains that way, but with Office 2000 there is a strong emphasis on between-application automation, ease of use, and the smart new bells and whistles that 2000 brings. Using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), the user can program his or her own programs in what is essentially a subset of the Visual Basic programming languages. This is tremendously powerful, as it allows you to create great User Interfaces (forms etc), as a front end to actual spreadsheet and database storage and manipulation. This continues to be one of the great strengths of programming Excel VBA. This book presents a full reference to the Excel object model which is essentially the object-oriented system of organizing the functional capacities that make up the Excel program. There will be a short introduction to VBA itself, and the rest of the book will document aspects of programming Excel through that object model. This book will be in three broad sections: the first part introduces Excel and VBA; the second offers interesting, thematic discussions of some of the capacities available to Excel VBA. The third and final part offers a full reference to the object model of Excel.

Review:

Wrox's growing reputation for putting out well-organised, detail-rich books for programmers gets a boost from Excel 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference. This book--a tutorial as well as a reference--holds a wealth of chewy facts that Excel developers will find very valuable.

The tutorial, accounting for half of the book, covers the various mechanisms available for referring to particular files, sheets, cells and ranges of cells. It also addresses the graphical representation of data--particularly in charts--and explains the most important aspects of controls and the events they generate. Green--unlike many VBA authors--covers internationalisation issues in considerable depth. This is the best VBA book on the market for those planning to write programs for a multilingual usage of Excel. There is also a VBA primer that covers critical VBA syntax and the essentials of object-orientation as it applies to the Excel environment.

The two reference sections--one for Excel's VBA objects and one for the VBA Extensibility (VBE) environment--make up the last half of Excel 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference. The references are comprehensive, but they're organised in a strange way--they list properties, methods and events with their names, return data types and descriptions in columns. This would be okay, but when an object's list of members extends over several pages it's impossible to be immediately sure of which object the list refers to. The object name ought to appear on each page. --David Wall