This is a professionals’ guide to understanding and implementing the key principles and techniques of programming Microsoft Office Excel 2007. Automating complex spreadsheets, streamlining time-intensive work processes, gaining the competitive edge, and making more money for your businesses: these are all reasons to take Excel to the next level. This book teaches how to do just that, with the author using his own real-life experience to develop your understanding to this professional level. The text teaches the most efficient way to create complex and feature rich VBA code, exposing all the new features and capabilities that make Excel 2007 so exciting.

Step-by-step instructions for creating VBA macros Harness the power of VBA and create custom Excel applications Make Excel 2007 work for you! This clear, nonintimidating guide shows you how to use VBA to create Excel apps that look and work the way you want. Packed with plenty of sample programs, it explains how to work with range objects, control program flow, develop custom dialog boxes, create custom toolbars and menus, and much more. Discover how to Grasp essential programming concepts Use the Visual Basic Editor Navigate the new Excel user interface Communicate with your users Deal with errors and bugs

Quickly teach yourself how to automate tasks and create custom spreadsheet solutions with Excel 2007 Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). With Step By Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Create macros to automate repetitive tasks Automatically format charts, shapes, and text Manipulate tables and other objects—even build PivotTable reports Write your own functions and procedures Use loops and conditions to add decision logic to macros Build custom command buttons, dialog boxes, and user forms Your all-in-one learning experience includes: Files for building skills and practicing the book’s lessons Fully searchable eBook Windows Vista Product Guide eReference—plus other resources on CD For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

This book is aimed squarely at Excel users who want to harness the power of the VBA language in their Excel applications. At all times, the VBA language is presented in the context of Excel, not just as a general application programming language. The Primer has been written for those who are new to VBA programming and the Excel object model. It introduces the VBA language and the features of the language that are common to all VBA applications. It explains the relationship between collections, objects, properties, methods, and events and shows how to relate these concepts to Excel through its object model. It also shows how to use the Visual Basic Editor and its multitude of tools, including how to obtain help. The middle section of the book takes the key objects in Excel and shows, through many practical examples, how to go about working with those objects. The techniques presented have been developed through the exchange of ideas of many talented Excel VBA programmers over many years and show the best way to gain access to workbooks, worksheets, charts, ranges, and so on. The emphasis is on efficiency—that is, how to write code that is readable and easy to maintain and that runs at maximum speed. In addition, the chapters devoted to accessing external databases detail techniques for accessing data in a range of formats. The final four chapters of the book address the following advanced issues: linking Excel to the Internet, writing code for international compatibility, programming the Visual Basic Editor, and how to use the functions in the Win32 API (Windows 32-bit Application Programming Interface).

Excel 2007 Programming by Example with XML and ASP offers a hands-on approach for those looking to extend and customize Excel functionality. From recording a simple macro and writing VBA code to working with XML documents and using ASP to accss and display data, this book takes you on a progrmming journey that will change the way you work with Excel. Learn how to automate spreadsheet tasks with macros; write VBA code to program PivotTables, generate charts, build dialog boxes, and customize the Ribbon; handle errors and debug programs; create hyperlinks and publish HTML files. Retrieve data from the web directly into Excel; develop and manipulate smart tags using XML.

Fully updated to the new version of Microsoft Office, Excel 2007 Power Programming with VBA includes everything you need to know about exploiting the power of this highly programmable application. No one can uncover Excel s hidden capabilities like Mr. Spreadsheet himself. In this power user s guide, John Walkenbach shows you how to customize Excel UserForms; develop new utilities; use VBA with charts and pivot tables; create event-handling applications; work with VBA subprocedures and function procedures; facilitate interactions with other applications; build user-friendly toolbars, menus, and help systems; and much more. If you re fairly new to Excel programming, here's the foundation you need. If you re already a VBA veteran, you can start mining a rich lode of programming ideas right away. The CD includes a trial version of the author s award-winning Power Utility Pak and over one hundred example Excel workbooks from the book.PART I: SOME ESSENTIAL BACKGROUNDPART II: EXCEL APPLICATION DEVELOPMENTPART III: UNDERSTANDING VISUAL BASIC FOR APPLICATIONSPART IV: WORKING WITH USERFORMSPART V: ADVANCED PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUESPART VI: DEVELOPING APPLICATIONSPART VII: OTHER TOPICS

This book is a single reference that’s indispensable for Excel beginners, intermediate users, power users, and would-be power users everywhere Fully updated for the new release, this latest edition provides comprehensive, soup-to-nuts coverage, delivering over 900 pages of Excel tips, tricks, and techniques readers won’t find anywhere else John Walkenbach, aka "Mr. Spreadsheet," is one of the world’s leading authorities on Excel Thoroughly updated to cover the revamped Excel interface, new file formats, enhanced interactivity with other Office applications, and upgraded collaboration features Includes a valuable CD-ROM with templates and worksheets from the book Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.