Microsoft Word 97 Visual Basic Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) [Paperback]

Michael Halvorson (Author), Chris Kinata (Author)

Book Description

Series: Step By Step (Microsoft) | Publication Date: February 7, 1997

This is a personal training system for those who want to customize Word 97 using Visual Basic for Applications--Word's new built-in programming language.

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About the Author

Michael Halvorson has written more than 30 books, including the popular Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Step by Step, Microsoft Office XP Inside Out, and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Step by Step. A former Visual Basic localization manager at Microsoft, Michael is a professor at Pacific Lutheran University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (February 7, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572313889
• ISBN-13: 978-1572313880
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,535,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too basic for me, August 10, 1998

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This review is from: Microsoft Word 97 Visual Basic Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

As a visual basic programmer, I was hoping this book would concentrate on how to do interesting things in Word. Instead, this book spends 80 pages on an intro to VBA, and there are just a few examples of interesting things you can do in Word. So I'd recommend this book for someone who has never programmed in VBA before. I'm thinking of ordering an advanced Word book instead.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written, organized, and relentlessly trivial, June 30, 1999

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This review is from: Microsoft Word 97 Visual Basic Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

My background is in Word Perfect Macro Language 5.0 and 5.1. I'm not a professional programmer, but I was able to learn and become quite expert in the WP macros. I stress I am talking about the language and not simple keystroke macros. This book gives no real conceptual overview to the reader, introduces new terms into every definition without prior notice., and gives what I feel are incomplete explanations. A measure of how bad the book is is that when I go back a chapter or so to see how something I I've read fits in, I'm more confused rather than. less.. The examples of macros are inane... Using the book has been frustrating and anger inducing.. A waste of money. in an expense of shame (to paraphrase the Bard). .

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Book covered access; could have covered VBA Better, November 2, 1997

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This review is from: Microsoft Word 97 Visual Basic Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

The book covered Access very well. It could have covered VBA better. For example, the VBA exercises would have been improved if they were at a more specific level.