In a Microsoft world, Access is often a good choice for intermediary database projects -- for example, if you need to manipulate a few hundred records in a fairly straightforward way.

But, as with everything, sometimes you need to be able to extend Access, or it simply grows beyond your expectation and you can't easily move it to another platform (such as SQL Server).

In those cases, knowing Visual Basic for Applications can really make your database sing. This book, like all the For Dummies titles, walks you through the basics.

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Product Description

If you’ve been using Access for a while, you’re probably aware of its power and potential and itching to take advantage of both. Access 2007 VBA Programming For Dummies takes you beyond forms and reports and shows you how to use VBA to create killer Access databases and applications. This gentle introduction to VBA programming covers everything you need to get started, including:

• Basic programming skills and concepts
• Explanations of modules, procedures, objects, and arguments
• Access-unique programming activities, including SQL and recordsets
• How to use the Visual Basic editor
• Creating dialog boxes, lists, drop-down menus, and functions
• Integrating with other Office applications
• Ready-to-use VBA code examples to type in or copy and paste from the Web

Completely revised to reflect all changes found in Microsoft Access 2007, Access 2007 VBA Programming For Dummies gives you access to Access like you’ve never had it before.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35403 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 386 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470046531
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover
Customize combo and list boxes

Go beyond forms and reports and build custom database solutions

Need to know how VBA works in Access 2007? This plain-English guide introduces you to the fundamentals of VBA programming, helping you get the most out of your Access apps and giving you practical code examples for immediate use in your databases. You'll see how to control Access through VBA and apply powerful real-world VBA solutions.

Discover how to

• Create simple VBA programs
• Program Access forms
• Manage Access tables with SQL and recordsets
• Test and debug your code
• Use VBA with multiple databases
• Integrate with other Office apps

About the Author
Joe Stockman is an independent consultant, software designer, and author who has been using Microsoft Access since its initial release. He’s also developed courseware and taught classes in Access and VBA. Joe developed his first application in Access, and then migrated into Visual Basic and VB.NET, where he specializes in creating applications for the Windows Mobile platform. He worked for several software companies before forming his consulting business in 2002, where he deals with all types of clients including healthcare, financial, government, manufacturing, and small business. His ability to turn his customers’ wishes into working applications keeps them satisfied. Joe’s also writing the fundamentals column for the Advisor Guide to Microsoft Access magazine.

Alan Simpson is the author of over 100 computer books on databases, Windows, Web site design and development, programming, and networking. His books are published throughout the world in over a dozen languages and have millions of copies. Alan has also taught introductory and advanced computer programming courses at San Diego State University and the UCSD Extension. He has served as a consultant on high-technology, educationoriented projects for the United States Navy and Air Force. Despite that, Alan has no fancy job title because he has never had a real job.

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Customer Reviews

Excellent Book on Customizing Access
Some years ago Microsoft created a specialized programming language to allow extensions to be made to the normal modes of operation allowed in their Office suite. The language was fairly well thought out to be applicable to applications as different as word processing, spreadsheets or data bases. They called it Visual Basic for Applications shortened to VBA. It has worked remarkable well. Down theough the years there have been relatively few changes to VBA.

This book is on VBA as specifically oriented to the Microsoft Access database program. But if you learn Access VBA, you are not far from knowing how to use VBA on any of the other Office components.

While this is an Access book, it is specifically on VBA, it assumes that you already know about how to build a table, and about rows and columns. It also assumes that you have some familiarty with other Access features such as building queries.

Access goes to a great deal of effort to avoid having to use the underlying SQL language. There are a couple of chapters on SQL for the total beginner. In the long run, you will probably want to know more.

You can't design one book to do everything in about 400 pages. This "dummies" book concentrates on VBA. That's enough for one book. It does a good job on VBA. You may want to fill out your bookshelf with Access for Dummies and SQL for Dummies.

VBA For Dummies is a Smart choice
Concise, readable, with tongue-in-cheek humor, this tome has been invaluable to my learning to code in VBA.

bought the wrong book
did not realize that this was for programing. Returned it and bought the real Access dummies workbook to start with instead.