Using Excel Visual Basic for Applications [Paperback]

E. Boonin (Author), Elizabeth Boonin (Author), Elisabeth Boonin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1996

This easy-to-use tutorial is the perfect book for learning Visual Basic Applications programming. Covering all the basics, the author bypasses the history of VBA and all unnecessary concepts, and focuses on what you really need to know to understand and program with Visual Basic Applications.

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This easy-to-use tutorial is the perfect book for learning Visual Basic Applications programming. Covering all the basics, the author bypasses the history of VBA and all unnecessary concepts, and focuses on what users really need to know to understand and program with Visual Basic Applications. - Filled with helpful analogies to explain Visual Basic Application programming to new users

- Plain English, please! helps readers with confusing jargon and concepts

- Includes Find the Bug exercises and review Questions and Answers in each chapter

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Que (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789703254
• ISBN-13: 978-0789703255
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,081,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Using Excel VBA, December 16, 1999

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B. Kowal (Pullman, Washington USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Using Excel Visual Basic for Applications (Paperback)

This is the only Visual Basic book I have seen which allows users to program in VB without first learning the intricacies of the language. Which makes this book the only convenient source (that I have found; after repeated trips to book stores and libraries) for anyone who is attempting to make useful programs in Excel. While it was written for Excel 7.0 the applications (amazingly) still work in Excel 2000. I would recomend this book to anyone who works with computers and wishes to save some time by avoiding tedious data entry.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Introductory but out of date, December 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Using Excel Visual Basic for Applications (Paperback)

This book is at a very beginning level, telling you how to use the macro recorder,defining a variable ("where programs store values"), defining what "calling" a procedure means etc. If you are at this beginning level, the book is excellent EXCEPT it is out of date. For example, the menu arrangement described in this book for inserting a module sheet is different if you use Excel '97. The dialog sheet is used here for designing dialog boxes, a method replaced with UserForms in Excel '97. So although intended to be a very handholding approach, for users of Excel '97 it is no longer so straigtforward. Probably John Walkenbach's "Microsoft Excel 2000 Power Programming" is more useful, but unfortunately at a more advanced level.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great way to learn to program VB, June 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Using Excel Visual Basic for Applications (Paperback)

I am always amazed at how hard it is to find a book that teaches someone to program in Visual Basic. There are thousands of books that go through lists of objects, properties, and controls, but very few that teach classic programming fundamentals using the VB language. I recommend this book to anyone interested in learning Visual Basic, not just those doing Excel macro programming.

This book has an excellent treatment of basic (no pun intended) programming concepts and is the only truly useful and usable text I've found for teaching VB inside or outside of the Excel environment.

My only question is when is Ms. Boonin going to update this book or release another one? I'm teaching a community college class and would like to use this as a textbook but the version of Excel this book is based upon is out of date.