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  • Paperback: 411 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 3rd Edition edition (15 Jun 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0764508563
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764508561
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.8 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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VBA For Dummies is a real card–carrying Dummies title with its fresh, conversational and irreverent style, yet it still covers VBA programming with real depth and accuracy. The book starts with a brief background on VBA and an explanation of key jargon and theoretical concepts. Then you jump right into the practical programming covering topics such as: VBA development environment; Visual Basic Editor; Meat and potatoes coding techniques; Database programming with VBA; Detailed Microsoft Office–specific tips and tricks; and Coverage of non–Microsoft VBA applications, including CorelDraw and Word Perfect.

Not all applications instantly give developers what they need out of the box. VBA For Dummies, 3rd Edition makes it easy for programmers to customize software from Microsoft and others with Visual Basic for Applications.

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Turbocharge your business software with Visual Basic for Applications

Now updated with coverage of Microsoft Office XP

Get up to speed with object–oriented programming Revised to cover Microsoft Office XP as well as upgrades of other VBA–enabled applications such as WordPerfect Office and AutoCAD, this friendly, accessible guide shows you step by step how to build and customize VBA applications to suit your business needs. all this on the bonus CD–ROM Trial versions of TX Text Control and Macro Magic ClipMate, PrettyCode.Print, and Macro Shareware versions of Express Sample VBA source code Six bonus chapters on Office programming and more System requirements: PC running Windows 95 or later, Windows NT4 or later. See the About the CD Appendix for details and complete system requirements.

Discover how to: Work with the Visual Basic editor Write and debug VBA programs Organize data with variables, arrays, and collections Design dialog boxes Use built–in VBA commands

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Previous reviewers have been somewhat unfair, 20 Jul 2004
This review is from: VBA for Dummies (Paperback)
I read the existing reviews out of interest because this book has been a constant companion of mine for a couple of years. That statement alone must tell you that I still get some use from this book even though it is not a work of reference. I then felt compelled to write this review because reading some of them, I wondered if we were referring to the same book.

I bought this book because I had stumbled around writing VBA for Access "by feel" for too long and I wanted something to fill in the gaps. Go into any bookshop or search this Amazon site and you will find little on VBA, even less now that Visual Basic is moving to .NET. Yet VBA is the underlying language for many Microsoft applications - Outlook, Office, Visio - as well as many other non Microsoft products. Steve Cummings explains why and what the standard is. It is this very diversity that makes it difficult to write any comprehensive book about VBA; explain the Outlook object model and Excel users will scream, "What about us?"

Let me continue by saying what I think this book is not. It is not a "Teach Yourself Programming" book; I would recommend that readers have some experience and/or appreciation of programming in some other environment. It is not an in-depth treatise on any of the applications that comply with the VBA (or COM) standard. How can it? Such a book would be 24 inches thick and out-of-date the moment it was published.

So what did this book do for me? It first gave me an understanding of the commonality and differences in the VBA applications family. I now like to think of VBA as the mortar that holds the different object model 'bricks' together. It did not give me a tutorial on Access VBA but it did enable me to more fully understand the Acces/VBA Help and to get to grips with the various Access Objects and the Access object model. It suggested standards for writing VBA code that I have adopted. It told me how to use the VBA user interface - stepping through code, the locals window, the watch window, etc., etc. My efficiency and productivity increased dramatically. It told me how to use the Object Browser. It converted me from using the DAO libraries to using the ADO libraries. It ... Well I suppose in summary I am now a power user whereas before I was a hacker.

It's not perfect but I gave this book 4 stars rather than 3 because despite everything I still find myself reading it and I still learn something.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not great. Does have some value., 27 April 1999
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This review is from: Visual Basic for Applications for Dummies (Paperback)
I found this book nowhere near as helpful as other Dummies books on VBA programming. If you want another good starter book, I would recommend "Access 97 Programming for Dummies", which is full of real world examples that will help you understand VBA.

The author just seemed to get too cute with the subject matter. Also, the lack of real world examples really hurts this book. You can't step into object-oriented programming when you decide to invent your own objects for everything.

The explanation of how loops work is okay and the constants information is not bad. Overall, however, get a real technical book and try to learn it that way. It will be harder, but you will be better for it.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Didn't help me much at all. Shocking., 5 April 1999
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This is probably one of the worst books I have read dealing with this subject. For a start is no use giving a beginner a little bit of code and saying it fits into a bigger lot of code eg. lots of code starts with ... then some code ending with ... what is a beginner supposed to do with that. The part chapter on passing values to sub routines was bad. I paid AUS$69.95 and feel I wasted my money. I should have returned the book and got my money back.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Could do better
This was my first introduction to VBA and I found the first reading a struggle, not becuase I am a dummy but becuase this book is not very well written. Read more
Published 21 months ago by VBA Coder

2.0 out of 5 stars OK If you need VB but not VBA!!!
Like a lot of books, which claim to be about VBA, this book covers more about Visual Basic e.g. IF ELSE, FOR NEXT, etc... Read more
Published on 15 April 2002

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than fat VBA books
I tried using Access 97 Programming Unleashed to learn VBA. I got more out of the smaller VBA for Dummies book than the 850 page Unleased book. Read more
Published on 14 April 1999

2.0 out of 5 stars Not much better than Microsoft's on-line help.
The book explains a lot of stuff pretty well, however you still don't really know how to do stuff. It's a bit too general. Read more
Published on 27 Jan 1999

2.0 out of 5 stars Not impressed
I was not impressed by the book.....too much waffle about VBA theory and not enough firm, practical examples. Half way through the book and I hadn't programmed a thing!!! Read more
Published on 23 Dec 1998

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