Microsoft Office 2000: Visual Basic for Applications Fundamentals (Developer Learning Tools) (Paperback)

by David Boctor (Author) "Creating documents, building databases, and writing e-mail are just some of the things you can do with Microsoft Office 2000..." (more)
Key Phrases: Project Explorer, Select Case, Microsoft Office (more...)

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Product Description
Microsoft Visual Basic programming in Office provides an environment and language for you to build custom programs that extend Office's capabilities and integrate Office with other software applications and business processes. To help you develop custom programs with Office, this book provides information for the following types of developers: The beginning developer familiar with Office but not with Visual Basic programming; the experienced Visual Basic developer who wants to understand the services and objects provided by Office; and the experienced Office developer who needs a reference to the new programming functionality provided by Office 2000, including the new COM add-in and event model.

Among other things, this book describes how to do the following in any Office 2000 Professional application through Visual Basic programming: insert and manipulate content such as text, tables, shapes, and cells; retrieve and set the window selection; create and manipulate documents; start one application from another; manipulate menus and toolbars; set up event procedures; and develop COM add-ins so that you can redistribute solutions to your customers.

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From Chapter 1: Because developers often write and segment programming code based on specific tasks, code samples and descriptions in this book are organized by task rather than by application. Throughout this book, you'll find side-by-side comparisons of tasks such as saving a document or determining the current selection, so that you'll learn how to write code to accomplish the same task in more than one Office application.

Product Details

• Paperback: 527 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Pr (May 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735605947
• ISBN-13: 978-0735605947
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,340,398 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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63 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great information from the source, August 3, 1999

By A Customer

With so many books on Office 2000 out there it's hard to know which one to buy, especially when you're buying online. One deciding factor can be the author's background, if you're fortunate enough to know it. If you don't know David let me tell you there's no one more qualified to write this type of book. David works for Microsoft designing the parts of Office that make it possible to program it using VBA. He helped create many of the features you'll read about in this book. I've seen the book and it provides a great view of what you can do with all the Office applications--not an easy task in a single book! So if you're programming Office 2000, or even thinking about it, you shouldn't pass up a great chance to learn from *the* source how it's done.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Learning Tool!!!, August 10, 2000

By	"d_sydney" (Boston, Massachusetts USA) - See all my reviews

I was looking for a great beginners book for vba. I've had this book one day and have learned alot of things that make my job 100% easier.