This title teaches how to program in VBA by showing users how to manipulate objects in each Office application.Visual Basic for Applications offers a concept lesson, followed by lessons in Word, Access, and Excel, with PowerPoint covered in the end of chapter exercises. This title stresses the commonality of VBA in all the Office applications.
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Diane Zak is a best-selling Course Technology author of multiple books, covering topics such as Visual Basic, C++, CGI/Perl, and Visual Basic for Applications. She was formerly a professor of Computer Information Systems at College of DuPage in Illinois. She now spends her time as an author and a speaker, presenting on programming topics to educators across the country.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Very good but be careful,
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This review is from: Visual Basic for Applications (Paperback)
I bought this book based on a previous review. The book was everything the review stated. However, what I found out the hard way is the book is written for Microsoft Office 2000. Also, the exercises required either a data disk (not included) or downloading the files from the Internet. However, being an owner of Microsoft Office 97, I was out of luck.In summary, if you have Microsoft Office 2000 and a fast enough Internet connection to download the data files needed, the book is excellent. I, unfortunately, had to return it.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
...but so verbose,
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This review is from: Visual Basic for Applications (Paperback)
Reads like a very, very long, but well written, email. Next to impossible to use as any sort of reference; I find that I cannot even locate material that I've already read. Much better to follow a format like the Visual QuickStart guides, which give you BOTH (slimmed-down) step-by-step instructions AND are grouped into short lessons that are suitable for use as a reference (you don't necessarily need to read those books cover-to-cover, in sequence). Another problem w/the Zak book: I generally find that I'm not quite sure why I'm doing the steps that she's asked me to do. Surprisingly, the QuickStart guides provide some context. The Zak book is generally well-written and has relatively few errors, and it has a lot of screen shots, which can be helpful. One other plus: the book works around examples that you can download, making it suitable for use as a text.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Basic at Best,
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This review is from: Visual Basic for Applications (Paperback)
Basic introduction to VBA, but probably not the best. Regardless, I first got an online version, definatly a bad idea. When you're learning a programming language it's just easier to follow a paperback.
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As you learned in the Overview, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is the programming language found in many Microsoft and non-Microsoft products, and it is fast becoming a standard as more and more third-party vendors license VBA to include in their applications. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
participant list document, form selector box, dot member selection operator, turn error trapping, date literal constants, identifying label control, showing documentation, book title capitalization, member appreciation dinner, excel lesson, open event procedure, providing keyboard access, following intrinsic constants, indent the insertion point, set appaccess, type the additional instructions, error trapping process, option group control, recordset that contains, facsimile transmittal sheet, screen with the code, type inputbox, box list arrow, main text story, customized balloon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Visual Basic Editor, Data Disk, Project Explorer, Office Assistant, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Discovery Exercises, End Sub, Object Browser, Paradise Electronics, Debugging Exercises, Professor Carlisle, Public Sub, Professor Martinez, Create Letter, Internet Explorer, Willowton Health Club, Close Program, Microsoft Visual Basic Help, Update Inventory, Add Procedure, General Declarations, Multiple Objects, Run Sub New!
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As you learned in the Overview, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is the programming language found in many Microsoft and non-Microsoft products, and it is fast becoming a standard as more and more third-party vendors license VBA to include in their applications. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
participant list document, form selector box, dot member selection operator, turn error trapping, date literal constants, identifying label control, showing documentation, book title capitalization, member appreciation dinner, excel lesson, open event procedure, providing keyboard access, following intrinsic constants, indent the insertion point, set appaccess, type the additional instructions, error trapping process, option group control, recordset that contains, facsimile transmittal sheet, screen with the code, type inputbox, box list arrow, main text story, customized balloon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Visual Basic Editor, Data Disk, Project Explorer, Office Assistant, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Discovery Exercises, End Sub, Object Browser, Paradise Electronics, Debugging Exercises, Professor Carlisle, Public Sub, Professor Martinez, Create Letter, Internet Explorer, Willowton Health Club, Close Program, Microsoft Visual Basic Help, Update Inventory, Add Procedure, General Declarations, Multiple Objects, Run Sub New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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