Using Excel Visual Basic for Applications (User Friendly Reference) | 
 enlarge | Author: Elisabeth Boonin
Publisher: Que
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Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0789703254
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.369
EAN: 9780789703255
ASIN: 0789703254
Publication Date: January 1996
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This guide focuses on "need to know" information and points out what the reader doesn't have to worry about. Boonin brings programming to the nontechnical user with real world applications as code examples. "Find the Bug" exercises and review questions and exercises in each chapter help the reader learn quickly.
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Great Book for starters December 19, 2001
Anthony Defex (Brooklyn, NY United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a very good book to begin programming in Excel VBA, but not to end if you will. The book sort of gives you a push and YOU! have to then take the ball and run with it. The book is analogous to how a mother bear chases her cubs away once they are big enough to take care of themselves. The cubs, though with enough skills to survive, are still left with new and open possibilities before them. The reason why is that most of the examples are too easy, making them too unrealistic for the real world. The other is that the book is based on an older Excel version. This book is really great for those people who are scared of programming and want to make the transition, but are not sure of what road to take.
 Disappointing February 16, 2000
Chester U Nelson III (St. Louis, MO USA)
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
Numerous examples and suggestions in the book were not accurate using Excel 97. For a self-paced, self-taught learner, look elsewhere.
 Using Excel VBA December 16, 1999
B. Kowal (Pullman, Washington USA)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is the only Visual Basic book I have seen which allows users to program in VB without first learning the intricacies of the language. Which makes this book the only convenient source (that I have found; after repeated trips to book stores and libraries) for anyone who is attempting to make useful programs in Excel. While it was written for Excel 7.0 the applications (amazingly) still work in Excel 2000. I would recomend this book to anyone who works with computers and wishes to save some time by avoiding tedious data entry.
Introductory but out of date December 13, 1999
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book is at a very beginning level, telling you how to use the macro recorder,defining a variable ("where programs store values"), defining what "calling" a procedure means etc. If you are at this beginning level, the book is excellent EXCEPT it is out of date. For example, the menu arrangement described in this book for inserting a module sheet is different if you use Excel '97. The dialog sheet is used here for designing dialog boxes, a method replaced with UserForms in Excel '97. So although intended to be a very handholding approach, for users of Excel '97 it is no longer so straigtforward. Probably John Walkenbach's "Microsoft Excel 2000 Power Programming" is more useful, but unfortunately at a more advanced level.
good for Mac or PC December 6, 1999
L. Bundy (Etna, CA USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I needed a quick course in Visual Basic for Excel. This book did the trick. I was tired of reading others' macros and trying to figure out what meant what. With a college course in Fortran77 providing me the basic framework of how to program, I found this book easy to follow and easier to learn from. I don't know if someone with absolutely no programming experience would find it as helpful, but it was an excellent book for me. I can now create my own code without having to use the recorder, and I can figure out other's complex code with the foundation the book provided.
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