Microsoft® Office Excel 2003 Programming Inside Out (Paperback)

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Product Description

Take your Microsoft Office experience to the next level by programming custom business solutions with Excel 2003. This supremely organized reference and tutorial packs hundreds of timesaving answers, tips, and workarounds for advanced Excel users.

Product Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (March 10, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735619859
• ISBN-13: 978-0735619852
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #416,543 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars PLEASE Look for another book!, October 1, 2004

By	G. Wendt (Bay Area, CA.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book isn't worth your time or money. I certainly wasted mine on it. The Author is so caught up in his ability to write code that he forgot what the book is about. No explanations of the code are offered so that you can follow his train of thought. I think he is off in the Delta Quadrant somewhere. The index is next to useless. Try to find 'comments' and you are directed to a page that has the word 'comments' on it but explains nothing regarding adding COMMENTS to your code. Most of his examples don't even work outside his tiny environment - I couldn't make any of them work in my Excel code. Forget troubleshooting your code! His code is so perfect he obviously didn't fell the need to write anything that helps debug your code. The book also lacks an appendix with a list of functions for easy reference. If you want a function your going to spend a huge amount of time flipping through pages. DON'T BUY!

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Almost Useless, May 13, 2004

By	T. Carroll - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have stacks of programming books covering Java and C++. I count this book as one of the two worst books I have ever purchased. I can use either a reference book or a tutorial type book, but I can't use a book that basically recites language attributes without any development or context. It doesn't work as a reference book because it leaves too much information out. There is no value added in this book.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Nice Book for Beginners....., August 7, 2005

By	J. P. Estep "AutoCAD Manager" (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have recently been turned on to Visual Basic due to my position in an Engineering Firm. We deal with a ton of calculations based on current projects. This book has helped tremendously in getting a foothold of the begining stages of Excels Visual Basic coding.

Some of the other reviewers have not been happy with this book and claim it to be useless. I do not find that to be true. If you are an advanced user/developer of excel programing then there ARE many books that will help more than this book, but if you have never done any coding in Excel, then this book is a really good start. Hey, where can you find a good intro book of this caliber, used, for less than $5.00?

This book does have it's down falls. It is a bit difficult to follow sometimes in that they don't really give more detailed explainations of how things go together but if you can read the first few chapters and still understand then you should have no problems working through this down fall.

This book does have a large amount of information in it. It covers all the topics that a beginning coder would need. They discuss in each chapter what the topis is for and how it works. The layout of this book is a nice one too. I have 'Inside Out' books on 'MS Project & Outlook'. These are very nice as well and the main reason I went with this book on Excel. I do not feel I went wrong here at all and would recommend this book to anyone wanting to get into Excel Programming.

In Summary, this is a good book for the price. You should find it helpful while on your path to Excel programming.