Exploit powerfully enhanced programmability in Office XP with authoritative information -- straight from the Microsoft Office development team. This hardcore programming reference comes packed with practical, roll-up-your-sleeves resources to help you maximize your productivity with development tools for Microsoft Office, including the Microsoft Visual Basic "RM" 6.0 and Microsoft Visual C++ "RM" development systems. This guide includes coverage of Workflow Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server "TM" and Microsoft Exchange, offering both design and coding examples, plus API-level coding examples. It also covers enhanced support in Microsoft Office XP for Web-enabled information sharing and XML. Use this incisive coverage to build on what you know and to accomplish everything from automating individual tasks to creating complex vertical-market applications. Each chapter presents dozens of code examples that illustrate the discussion. And the companion CD-ROM contains hundreds of procedures you can use right now -- helping you to focus your creativity on designing solutions, rather than on building rudimentary code. It's everything you need to create better business solutions, faster!

This "smackdown" provides fast-paced, in-depth information for experienced VBA and VB coders on how to program Office XP applications

Learn to optimize Microsoft Office XP applications to save time and increase efficiency across your organization. Aitken, the author of more than 25 books on computer-related topics, now offers a complete guide to developing robust business solutions using XP components and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

Presents a guide to the applications found in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Experience learning made easy--and quickly teach yourself how to use the complete suite of Microsoft Office XP applications. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction--building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! WORD: Create and publish great-looking documents quickly and easily EXCEL: Develop easy-to-use spreadsheets and perform calculations ACCESS: Build your own databases for better decision making POWERPOINT: Produce and deliver compelling presentations FRONTPAGE: Get yourself--or your company--on the Web fast by constructing your own site PUBLISHER: Create professional-quality marketing materials--without being a designer OUTLOOK: Manage your e-mail communications and calendar

Master the basics of Microsoft Office quickly and easily with this Visual QuickStart Guide. Previous editions of this book have sold over 50,000 copies worldwide Organized and presented specifically for busy professionals who need to get right to work A reasonably priced, easy-to-reference guide to the essentials of Microsoft Office The standard suite of business applications, now up20010803d for the new Windows XP platform, Microsoft Office XP for Windows is a full-featured word-processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and information management package. Office XP for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide guides users right to the most frequently-used tasks in Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook, using clear, step-by-step instructions and illustrated with hundreds of helpful screen shots. For users who don't have the time or resources to wade through long passages of text and just want a quick reference to the essentials of each Office application, this is the ideal guide. Steve Sagman has written or co-written over 17 books on computing, including Microsoft Office 2000 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. His books have sold well over a million copies, and have been translated into 12 languages. He has written for PC Computing, Computer Shopper, PC Week, PC World, and PC Magazine.

Create Microsoft Office-based applications that work seamlessly in the Microsoft .NET environment--with this essential reference from Microsoft developer Andrew Whitechapel. The author provides expert advice on the various approaches you can use to build managed solutions with Office, and gives practical guidance on the most viable techniques for technical and business scenarios. You'll begin building custom .NET-based applications with detailed, practical exercises that take you through solutions from beginning to end. Andrew shares tactics, strategies, and best practices--plus full sample code--to help you maximize your development efforts. Packed with the same information used by Microsoft's Product Support Services team, this book is the one reference that every Office and .NET developer should have. Discover how to: Develop powerful .NET solutions for Office with managed interop assemblies Integrate managed code with Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Create custom commands and functionality with managed COM and Automation add-ins Build custom Office features with external data using Web services, .NET remoting, and research services Use Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office to create document-centric solutions for Microsoft Excel and Word Use digital signatures, strong-naming and .NET Code Access Security Control Office applications using Platform Invoke, Reflection, drag-and-drop, and the IAccessible interface Develop managed Smart Tags and managed Smart Document solutions Covers Microsoft Office 97, Office 2000, Office XP, and Microsoft Office System 2003 Editions