Teach yourself how to use Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) to take command of Microsoft Excel Version 2002. Choose your own best starting point in this self-paced guide to learn how to automate spreadsheets, write your own functions and procedures, customize menus and toolbars, and more. Easy-to-follow lessons with real-world scenarios and examples show you exactly how to maximize the built-in programming power in Microsoft Excel 2002. Numerous screenshots and a CD full of practice files help you master step-by-step programming procedures. Find out how to create custom solutions with Microsoft Excel and this book—then keep it nearby as an ongoing desktop reference to VBA functions and features. Learn at your own pace how to: Use macros to automate simple and complex tasks Manipulate workbooks and worksheets Explore range objects Work with graphical objects Build and manipulate PivotTable® objects Create loops and conditional statements with Visual Basic Use dialog box controls on worksheets Create and use custom functions and handle macro errors Create custom toolbar buttons, menu commands, command buttons, event handlers, and dialog boxes A Note Regarding the CD or DVD The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to [email protected].

Office 2002 is the next version (after Office 2000) of Microsoft's program suite that includes Word, Access, Outlook and Excel. The aim of 2002 is to take advantage of Office's core position within most business systems and make it the interface to business processes and web services. One of the most significant advances is the XML capability that has been added to Access and Excel, with the latter becoming the key to future Web Service integration and an essential part of any Office developer's skill set. -- Written by two active and popular members of the Excel community -- Includes coverage of all the new features including smart tags, pivot tables, and web components -- Examines all the new XML capabilities that 2002 brings to the Excel world

Designed to provide non-developers with a hands-on guide to both Excel VBA and XML, this book gives users a wide range of VBA coverage including how to write subroutines and functions from scratch, manipulate files and folders with VBA statements, manage date with arrays and collections, and much more. Includes CD.

"LEARNING TO PROGRAM THE EXCEL OBJECT MODEL USING VBA"--COVER.

This book provides an introduction to VBA for Excel for new users. It covers basic concepts of VBA and of macro programming, and takes the reader through the process of constructing interactive working applications. Features which make it particularly suitable for new and non-technical users are: * step-by-step approach * avoidance of jargon * clear explanation of all new concepts, symbols and objects * emphasis on correct use of VBA development environment * plentiful examples and the use of complete programs rather than disconnected fragments.

The definitive guide to developing applications with Microsoft Excel, this book is written by four authors who are Excel MVPs and run their own companies developing Excel-based applications.

This is a unique visual guide for those who want to take the next step in VBA expertise.