Product Description

Take your Microsoft Office experience to the next level by programming custom business solutions with Excel 2003. This supremely organized reference and tutorial packs hundreds of timesaving answers, tips, and workarounds for advanced Excel users.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #273788 in Books
• Brand: MSOFT
• Published on: 2004-03-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 624 pages

Customer Reviews

PLEASE Look for another book!
This book isn't worth your time or money. I certainly wasted mine on it. The Author is so caught up in his ability to write code that he forgot what the book is about. No explanations of the code are offered so that you can follow his train of thought. I think he is off in the Delta Quadrant somewhere. The index is next to useless. Try to find 'comments' and you are directed to a page that has the word 'comments' on it but explains nothing regarding adding COMMENTS to your code. Most of his examples don't even work outside his tiny environment - I couldn't make any of them work in my Excel code. Forget troubleshooting your code! His code is so perfect he obviously didn't fell the need to write anything that helps debug your code. The book also lacks an appendix with a list of functions for easy reference. If you want a function your going to spend a huge amount of time flipping through pages. DON'T BUY!

Almost Useless
I have stacks of programming books covering Java and C++. I count this book as one of the two worst books I have ever purchased. I can use either a reference book or a tutorial type book, but I can't use a book that basically recites language attributes without any development or context. It doesn't work as a reference book because it leaves too much information out. There is no value added in this book.

Just a so so book...
Whenever I see a Microsoft Press book, I am cautious because their is usually less than expected. This is another one of those books. The topics covered are excellent, but their doesn't seem to be much attention to the details. What happened to the CD-ROM sample code for chapter 14? Buy if you must, but be warned.