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Building on Office XP's foundation, you can construct powerful custom applications far more quickly than if you built them from scratch. In this book, expert developer and consultant Peter G. Aitken shows exactly how to leverage the power of Microsoft Office XP in custom application development. Whether you're an experienced developer or a business professional with a problem that needs solving, Aitken will show you how to do it with Office—step by step. Aitken begins by reviewing each key Office XP application—Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, FrontPage, and Outlook—and the shared components accessible to all of them. You'll discover powerful opportunities for extending and automating Office, and for using Office XP to improve collaboration throughout your organization. Then, one step at a time, Aitken teaches the key VBA skills you'll need to achieve your goals. Office XP Development with VBA then walks you through the construction of four real-world Office applications, emphasizing Office XP's value in real-world collaboration on the Web and corporate intranets. For both experienced developers and Office power users—no Office or VBA experience necessary!
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- Create custom business solutions with Microsoft Office XP and Office 2000!
- Extend Word, Excel, Outlook, and other Office applications.
- Learn all aspects of Office development, including security and distribution.
- Leverage Office's powerful collaboration, intranet, and Web capabilities
- For novice developers and Office power users!
- Discover the power of Office programming
- Applies to both Office XP and Office 2000
- Master the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) language and development environment
- Understand the powerful components in the Office object model
- Build custom tools that leverage email and the Web
- Construct four Office applications - step-by-step
- No Microsoft Office programming experience necessary!
Developing robust custom solutions with Microsoft Office XP/2000!Microsoft Office is far more than the world's leading office productivity suite. Itspowerful capabilities are organized into hundreds of programmable components, all available to any developer who needs to create custom business solutions. Bycombining these components with the powerful Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language, you can construct powerful applications far more quickly than if you built them from scratch. These components and VBA are available in both Office XP and Office 2000, which means you can use them whether or not you upgraded.
In this book, expert developer and consultant Peter G. Aitken shows exactly how toleverage the power of Microsoft Office in custom application development. Whetheryou're an experienced developer or a business professional with a problem that needssolving, Aitken will show you how to do it with Office — step by step.
Aitken begins by reviewing each key Office application - Word, Excel, Access,PowerPoint, Frontpage, and Outlook - and the shared components accessible to all ofthem. You'll discover powerful opportunities for extending and automating Office to increase efficiency and improve collaboration throughout your organization. Then, onestep at a time, Aitken teaches the key VBA skills you'll need to achieve your goals. Finally, this book walks you through the construction of four real-world Office applications, emphasizing the potential value of Office custom solutions in real-world business situations.
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