Microsoft Office 97 Developers Handbook: With CDROM, Developing Professional Buisness Applications with the Office 97 Developer [Paperback]

Christine Solomon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1997

nced consultant Christine Solomon shows users how to automate and reengineer a wide assortment of businesses on the powerful Microsoft Office 97 platform. The CD-ROM contains source code and files for creating sample applications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (March 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572314400
• ISBN-13: 978-1572314405
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,504,472 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Returned it, August 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Office 97 Developers Handbook: With CDROM, Developing Professional Buisness Applications with the Office 97 Developer (Paperback)

This book is about the development of VB apps, not developing the apps themselves. Stuff like how to determine the users needs, and examples of the forms you might use to plan your project. Ummm... where's the stuff on how to write your code? No use for beginners, but app development managers might like it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars All in all, pretty weak, March 23, 1998

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This review is from: Microsoft Office 97 Developers Handbook: With CDROM, Developing Professional Buisness Applications with the Office 97 Developer (Paperback)

This book would have been better if the author had not attempted to cover so many topics at once. The book waffles between management theory, the history of Microsoft, and actual code. The scarcity of real usable code that is specific to Office is what ruined the book for me. Mostly the book serves as a beginning VB(A) textbook. All in all the book is ok if aimed at someone who is primarily involved in document publishing rather than code or to a true novice developer. It's selling point as 'an updated edition of the successful Developing Applications with Microsoft Office 95' is pretty weak, considering how little code there is in the book actually relating to the Office suite programs. Don't expect to find any object module listing. I would recommend instead Office 97 Visual Basic Programmer's Guide..

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best developer's guide I've read, bar none, April 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Office 97 Developers Handbook: With CDROM, Developing Professional Buisness Applications with the Office 97 Developer (Paperback)

If you are expecting a complete reference or a beginners guide to application development then you will probably be disappointed. If, however you are a developer with some experience trying to get to grips with this beast called Office 97 then this book is well worth a read.

The author is clearly an accomplished developer and her style is business-like, "to the point" and CONSISTENT (you're not assumed to be a rocket scientist one minute and a complete novice the next).

As any developer knows, there are often numerous ways to do the same thing when building applications. This book shows, and explains why it is often better to do things one way rather than another in MS Office. As a developer myself, I found that this book gave enough information to put me on the right track, but without labouring the point. The code examples have also been well thought out, illustrating the topics concisely so that they can be digested without necessarily having to try them out in order to understand them.

It is not often that I read such books from cover to cover, but I was left feeling that I had been brought up to speed. If you need to write Office applications, read this book and save yourself some time!