Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition [Paperback]

Steven Roman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0596003595 | ISBN-13: 978-0596003593 | Publication Date: June 15, 2002 | Edition: Second Edition

Newly updated for Excel 2002, Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition provides Excel power-users, as well as programmers who are unfamiliar with the Excel object model, with a solid introduction to writing Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros and programs for Excel. In particular, the book focuses on:

• The Visual Basic Editor and the Excel VBA programming environment. Excel features a complete, state-of-the-art integrated development environment for writing, running, testing, and debugging VBA macros.

The VBA programming language, the same programming language used by the other applications in Microsoft Office XP and 2000, as well as by the retail editions of Visual Basic 6.0. The Excel object model, including new objects and new members of existing objects in Excel 2002. Excel exposes nearly all of its functionality through its object model, which is the means by which Excel can be controlled programmatically using VBA. While the Excel object model, with 192 objects, is the second largest among the Office applications, you need to be familiar with only a handful of objects to write effective macros. Writing Excel Macros focuses on these essential objects, but includes a discussion of many more objects as well.

Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition is written in a terse, no-nonsense manner that is characteristic of Steven Roman's straightforward, practical approach. Instead of a slow-paced tutorial with a lot of handholding, Roman offers the essential information about Excel VBA that you must master to write macros effectively. This tutorial is reinforced by interesting and useful examples that solve common problems you're sure to have encountered.

Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition is the book you need to delve into the basics of Excel VBA programming, enabling you to increase your power and productivity.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Steven Roman, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the California State University, Fullerton. His previous books with O'Reilly include "Access Database Design and Programming", "Writing Excel Macros with VBA", and "Win32 API Programming with Visual Basic".

Product Details

• Paperback: 572 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media; Second Edition edition (June 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596003595
• ISBN-13: 978-0596003593
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,008 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #1 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Applications > Office 2000
  • #4 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Applications > Office XP
  • #20 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Development > VBA

Customer Reviews

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mr Roman's book is very good value., May 16, 2005

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Douglas L. Brasier "Code Luvver" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

Mr Roman is an extremely competent and clear writer. This book, whilst not as big as some, doesn't waste space with any padding, and boring repititious stuff you see in some texts.
Although there could have been a little more on interplay between Excel and the other Office objects, esp. Outlook, this book makes up for that with its clear, organised and logical presenatation.

I use it as a reference book, and seem to remember the content of it more clearly than I do with other comparable books! Why is this? Mr Roman has a tidy turn of phrase, doesn't wafffle, but his explanations seem to sit well in how my mind works. I hope this will be the same for you.

I recommend this book for those who may be beyond the beginner stage of learning VB(A). It also includes some handy utilities for users of Excel.

Mr Roman - well done. Look forward to your next (high level?) Excel VBA book.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Reference, June 7, 2005

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Daniel McKinnon "Dan" (Tewksbury, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

This is a very specialized book with a very specialized core audience and this text does what it says it does -- teach you how to write Excel Macros using VBA. Nothing too exciting here folks, very dry reading that is a necessary reference if you need to have more control over Excel than the everyday user does.

I remember long ago when I needed to work on building some installers and I had never worked with Installshield before. There was one book on the market that was helpful in completing this task, and there is a very close correlation here as well. There simply is not enough of a market to provide a wide variety of different books to choose from when needing to learn how to write Excel macros. Any user would want a book that helps them complete their task at hand and this book gets my seal of approval in helping to do just that.

**** RECOMMENDED

45 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Only mathematician can write this book, July 29, 2002

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Weiqin Xie (New Jersey, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

I don't know why this book is labeled as "2nd Edition". The cover is the 3rd "face" I have seen. I did learn good stuff from the previous editions, but never recommend it to anybody for its' dry. The new edition has a big change. It is succinct, reader-freindly, but also contains many useful information you won't find in other books. For instance, there is no any other book goes so depth into Pivot Table properties and methods. Comparing with the Excel 2002 VBA books written by John Walkenbach or Stephen Bullen and John Green, this book definitely presents more real 2002 features. If you want to learn more about Excel 2002 objects, get this book.