The Underground Guide to Microsoft Office, Ole, and Vba: Slightly Askew Advice from Two Integration Wizards (Underground Guide Series) [Paperback]

Lee Hudspeth (Author), Timothy-James Lee (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0201410354 | ISBN-13: 978-0201410358 | Publication Date: April 1995

Warning: applications work together in amazing new ways that can save you time and effort, but OLE should also carry a warning label: "Work in Progress--Hard Hat Area." This Underground Guide gives you expert advice on how to get your money's worth without losing your data or your mind.Do you think VBA and DDE are government agencies? Are you convinced that OLE Automation involves those mechanical bulls in cowboy bars? Think again! These powerful technologies can let your use the applications in Microsoft (R) Office together to work better and faster than ever--or they can drive you completely around the bend. Lee Hudspeth and Timothy-James Lee give you inside information not found anywhere else, including shortcuts, warnings, and tips on finding (and squashing!) OLE's baddest bugs. * Get the truth about OfficeLinks, the umbrella term for features that link, embed, edit-in-place, and draw-and-drop objects and Office-infinitum. * Find out the difference between linking and embedding objects across applications and why you should care (Hint: read this chapter before you download that multimedia presentation onto the boss's laptop). * Use Visual Basic for Applications and OLE Automation to set up your own Microsoft Office Puppet Government (tm) and make those formerly independent applications work together--whether they want to or not. Mouthwatering VBA source code galore! * And many other amazing and little-known facts! Every page has something you can use immediately. This book is packed with advice, VBA source code, bug reports, workarounds, and the ding of nitty-gritty explanations that could come only from people who eat, sleep, and breathe Microsoft Office.Series Editor Woody Leonard and Addison-Wesley are proud to bring you the Underground Guides--fun books for serious computer users. 0201410354B04062001

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The Underground Guide to Microsoft Office, OLE, and VBA offers a sophisticated discussion of Office programming and the technologies that make it possible. Unfortunately, the book covers Office 4.x, which preceded Office 95, rendering much of the material obsolete. Nonetheless, Hudspeth and Lee describe OLE Automation, OfficeLinks, and Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) in great detail and list dozens of low-level OLE and DDE bugs. While it won't provide you with the most up-to-date information, having this technophilosophical background is a prerequisite to becoming a great programmer.

About the Author

Lee Hudspeth and Timothy-James Lee are principals of PRIME Consulting Group, Inc., and the authors of The Underground Guide to Excel 5.0 for Windows (tm), which was selected as Book of the Month by Windows Magazine.Lee Hudspeth and Timothy-James Lee are principals of PRIME Consulting Group, Inc., and the authors of The Underground Guide to Excel 5.0 for Windows (tm), which was selected as Book of the Month by Windows Magazine. 0201410354AB04062001

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr (April 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201410354
• ISBN-13: 978-0201410358
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,172,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book ROCKS, May 14, 1998

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This review is from: The Underground Guide to Microsoft Office, Ole, and Vba: Slightly Askew Advice from Two Integration Wizards (Underground Guide Series) (Paperback)

If you've picked up countless computer books during the course of your working life, found a topic in the index, and then promptly tossed them aside in disgust when you read "First drag the pointer (white arrow) across the screen to the...", then this is the book series is for you!

Pivot Tables, data integration all the Trick features that will forever replace your weekly lists and highlighters are explained (including the SNAFUs to expect and how to avoid them)

Especially if you office runs on a Win3.1 platform and you are TRUELY PC literate (ie can recite basic menu commands to your parents w/o looking at the screen), this info will amaze you peers, impress your bosses and simplify your weekly routine.