Word 2000 VBA Programmers Reference [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Duncan MacKenzie (Author), Felipe Martins (Author)

Book Description

Series: Programmer's Reference | Publication Date: April 1999

Word 2000 is an important part of the Office 2000 program suite, and will be available in the Premium, Professional, Standard and Small Business editions of Office 2000. Word has traditionally been the Office suite word processor program par excellence. It still remains that way, but with Office 2000 there is a strong emphasis on between-application automation, ease of use, and the smart new bells and whistles that 2000 brings.Using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), the user can create their own programs in what is essentially a subset of the Visual Basic programming language. This is neat because it allows you to automate a lot of the word processing tasks performed daily - one press of a button can link Excel spreadsheets into Word documents; prepare chapters for layout at Wrox Press, etc.

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From the Publisher

This book presents a full reference to the Word object model - which is essentially the object-oriented system of organizing the functional capacities that make up the Word program. There will be a short introduction to VBA itself, and the rest of the book will document aspects of programming Word through that object model.

About the Author

Duncan Mackenzie has authored several books, and is also a freelance consultant for Office automation.

Product Details

• Paperback: 650 pages
• Publisher: Wrox Press; 1st edition (April 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861002556
• ISBN-13: 978-1861002556
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,956,507 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Wrox's Worst, September 28, 2000

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This review is from: Word 2000 VBA Programmers Reference (Paperback)

This book is curious because it's too simple for an experienced programmer and it makes too many assumptions for a beginner. For those in between there are a few things worth looking at in the book, but by and large it's a waste of money. There's almost 300 pages of material that comes packaged with VBA--it's the entire Word object model, accessible through the Object Browser. Why did Mackenzie include this? Perhaps because a 270 book on Word VBA doesn't look nearly as impressive as a 600 page book on VBA.

A better reference for Word development is Guy Hart-Davis' "Word 2000 Developer's Handbook," which is not a stellar book but is MUCH better than Makenzie's. For general VBA development, Ken Getz' "VBA Developer's Handbook" is a good resource, though it's really just a bank of ready-made functions.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too light for serious development, May 26, 2000

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Michael Frank - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Word 2000 VBA Programmers Reference (Paperback)

This book didn't go into nearly the depth for Word that I needed. The first 4 chapters (~100 pages) were too basic - covering VBA fundamentals (not Word 2000 specific). Chapter 8 & 9 discussed linking to databases which was a useful but any inter-Office programmng book would do better. The last 250 pages is strictly a listing of the object models for Word and ADO (with very little elaboration).

It contains very few programming tricks; a few programming practice recommendations; medium amount of simple examples; no troubleshooting or common mistakes section.

This book is OK for someone that doesn't like to use the object browser & help file because it doesn't give you much more than that.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Usefull and Comprehensive, April 10, 2000

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Bartosz Marcinkowski (New Mexico, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Word 2000 VBA Programmers Reference (Paperback)

I found this book very usefull for writing a parser of a Microsoft Word Document. It included references to all the objects that Word Library has availible. I recomend it as a reference. I wouldn't recomand it for somebody who is new to programming.