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MS Office 97 Visual Basic Programmer's Guide (Microsoft Professional Editions)

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An excellent book. I used it primarily for my Word Application that automatically creates a report from existing Access97 Database. What could not be accomplished using MailMerge had to be done using DAO and this book was definitely a gem. I doubt I could have completed my task without this book. It should be on the bookshelf of every VBA programmer!

A great reference book. I can resolve most of my VB Office Object issues by thumbing through the Table of Contents and finding the appropriate topic matter page. The book is truly easy to read, yet informative.

I bought this book looking for a guide to various office objects, methods, etc. I found this book to have no real substance. It does an inadequate job of explaining what objects are out there, how to use them, and what they are for. I was primarily looking for Excel references, but have since found this book to be useless for Outlook and Access as well. Not being new to VB, VBA, or VBScript, I find this book good neither for beginners OR advanced users.

After struggling for seven years to learn Word Visual Basic using this book as a reference, I have decided that its greatest value is as waste paper. It would be a disservice to give it to anyone. I have mastered six programming languages from language reference manuals, and my software has been used at five planets and the moon, so I speak advisedly. This book might be useful to someone with weeks to spend doing nothing but reading it from cover to cover. But for those whose time is more valuable, don't waste it here! In its index, "Operators" doesn't appear, there are no entries for N,X,Y,and Z, and only one entry each for J and K and three for G. Its table of contents is almost useless. No author is mentioned, only a "Project Editor". For a reference at the opposite extreme, buy Francesco Balena's "Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: The Language" ISBN 0735621837. Published 2006.

This book is for the intermediate to advanced Visual Basic programmer. This book allows the programmer to fully exploit the powers of Visual Basic/Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). To use this book, the reader must be familiar with Visual Basic 4.0+, and have access to a copy of MS Office '97. This book is well written, and is easy to understand and follow. Few books are better than this

This book has proven itself to be a great reference source for developing Office 97 integrated solutions. I have been able to provide company solutions which allow inserting and extracting of information between the Office 97 Word, Access and Outlook that has saved hours of work.

This book combined with the on-line help system is esstenial for tailoring Office 97 to your companies needs.

The book was an excellent source of information on VBA, and VB for the Office apps not yet supporting VBA. If you're looking to build quick intergrated solutions based on Office97 this is a great resource. It definitely helped me out in creating a number of solutions for our organization.

Buy this book only if you're really into frustration and time wasting. The examples are often incomplete and don't work as shown without some other setup. The charts of each applications objects would be useful, if they contained more than the objects names. A complete UIM model of each applications exposed programming interface would help greatly. The book contains mostly the same text and examples as in the on-line help files. Don't waste any money on this book, the on-line help is easier to use.