Sams Teach Yourself Excel 2000 Programming in 21 Days [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Matthew Harris (Author)

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Product Description
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Excel 2000 Programming in 21 Days gives you the skills you need to get up and running efficiently. With this complete tutorial, you'll master the basics and move on to the more advanced features and concepts. Learn to add new functions and capabilities to your Excel files and applications. Explore built-in functions, arrays, subroutines, error handling, string operators and expressions, variables, and constants--all in detail. Step-by-step lessons show you how to use Visual Basic to control different applications from withing Excel, and more.

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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Excel 2000 Programming in 21 Days gives you the skills you need to get up and running efficiently. With this complete tutorial, you'll master the basics and move on to the more advanced features and concepts. Learn to add new functions and capabilities to your Excel files and applications. Explore built-in functions, arrays, subroutines, error handling, string operators and expressions, variables, and constants--all in detail. Step-by-step lessons show you how to use Visual Basic to control different applications from withing Excel, and more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1145 pages
• Publisher: Sams; illustrated edition edition (April 28, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672315432
• ISBN-13: 978-0672315435
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,255,243 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for the VB-ginner, July 6, 1999

By A Customer

Truthfully, I am not yet through the entire book yet. But this is a very well written book for someone that has a desire to learn VBA programming with Excel, or to eventually move into VB. Examples build on prior chapters to drive the message home. Every concept is explained two or three times making it slow to read, but thorough. Each chapter includes a summary, questions and exercises. Do your homework and you'll be getting that raise you deserve! And don't be discouraged that this book doesn't come with a CD. You'll need the practice typing code. However, if you already know what VB is and can make your way around the Editor, I suggest Reed Jacobson's Excel 2000 VBA Fundamentals. I bought that book at the same time and it is on the shelf waiting for me to catch up. I think it will be a great reference for real world examples later on.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book for someone NEW to programming, April 11, 2002

By	Antonios Giannakas (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This book explains Excel VBA in a way very easy to understand.However if someone has a programming experience, the book could be boring. The index is excellent and is a very good reference.

Although designed for beginers it goes to more advanced subjects.
Ideally this book should be read first, followed by a more practical book like Walkenbach's Excel 2002 Power Programming with VBA- which by the way is much more pleasant to read.
The title is misleading, it should better be named "Learn Excel Programming in 41 Long Days".

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Buy!, December 10, 2002

By	Anthony Defex "Tony the Tiger" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This was a very good book. The book contained excellent explanations for the code examples. There are lots of useful code examples, which are downloadable through the internet. The code examples are 99% error free. The book is pretty cheap considering the size, over a thousand pages. It took me 10 weeks to complete it. More than half of the information provided is useful for all the other implementations of VBA, such as Access, Word, etc. You will really be teaching yourself a great deal though not in 21 days, but more like in 70 days.