Product Description

"Today, no accomplished Excel programmer can afford to be without John's book. The value of Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA is double most other books-simultaneously the premier reference and best learning tool for Excel VBA."
--Loren Abdulezer, Author of Excel Best Practices for Business

Everything you need to know about:
* Creating stellar UserForms and custom dialog box alternatives
* Working with VBA subprocedures and function procedures
* Incorporating event-handling and interactions with other applications
* Building user-friendly toolbars, menus, and help systems
* Manipulating files and Visual Basic components
* Understanding class modules
* Managing compatibility issues


Feel the power of VBA and Excel

No one can uncover Excel's hidden capabilities like "Mr. Spreadsheet" himself. John Walkenbach begins this power user's guide with a conceptual overview, an analysis of Excel application development, and a complete introduction to VBA. Then, he shows you how to customize Excel UserForms, develop new utilities, use VBA with charts and pivot tables, create event-handling applications, and much more. If you're fairly new to Excel programming, here's the foundation you need. If you're already a VBA veteran, you can start mining a rich lode of programming ideas right away.

CD-ROM Includes
* Trial version of the author's award-winning Power Utility Pak
* Over one hundred example Excel workbooks from the book


System Requirements: PC running Windows 2000 SP3 or later, or Windows XP(TM) or later. Microsoft Excel 2003. See the "What's on the CD" Appendix for details and complete system requirements.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6287 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1018 pages

From the Back Cover
"Today, no accomplished Excel programmer can afford to be without John’s book. The value of Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA is double most other books–simultaneously the premier reference and best learning tool for Excel VBA."
—Loren Abdulezer, Author of Excel Best Practices for Business

Everything you need to know about:

• Creating stellar UserForms and custom dialog box alternatives
• Working with VBA subprocedures and function procedures
• Incorporating event-handling and interactions with other applications
• Building user-friendly toolbars, menus, and help systems
• Manipulating files and Visual Basic® components
• Understanding class modules
• Managing compatibility issues

Feel the power of VBA and Excel

No one can uncover Excel’s hidden capabilities like "Mr. Spreadsheet" himself. John Walkenbach begins this power user’s guide with a conceptual overview, an analysis of Excel application development, and a complete introduction to VBA. Then, he shows you how to customize Excel UserForms, develop new utilities, use VBA with charts and pivot tables, create event-handling applications, and much more. If you’re fairly new to Excel programming, here’s the foundation you need. If you’re already a VBA veteran, you can start mining a rich lode of programming ideas right away.

CD-ROM Includes

• Trial version of the author’s award-winning Power Utility Pak
• Over one hundred example Excel workbooks from the book

System Requirements: PC running Windows® 2000 SP3 or later, or Windows XP™ or later. Microsoft Excel 2003. See the "What’s on the CD" Appendix for details and complete system requirements.

About the Author
John Walkenbach, principal of JWalk and Associates Inc., is a leading authority on spreadsheet software and creator of the award-winning Power Utility Pak. He has written more than 30 spreadsheet books and more than 300 articles and reviews for publications including PC World, InfoWorld, and Windows, and maintains the popular Spreadsheet Page at www.j-walk.com/ss.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Excel Book
This book is...I can't find the words. It has helped me tremendously. I have gone further with Excel then I ever dreamed I could on my own. I recommend this book for anyone wanting to get more use out of their spreadsheets.

Informative, but Difficult to Find Information at Times
While I had used this for a course in VBA, and noted that it was an extremely concise text, I found it near useless when I was working on my assignments. This book had the information in it, but oftentimes, I simply could not find this information quickly (if at all), and instead Googled much of my information.

On a positive note, this is a well-written book (note: not well-indexed), and therefore useful if you're learning VBA and exploring each chapter one-at-a-time. If you're looking strictly for a reference book for VBA, however, I would strongly advise against getting this particular text.

Also, this text is not written for beginners (a point that the author makes clear), even though some of the material in this book could only be for beginners (for example, the introductory VBA material).

Strongly recommend Excel 2003 Power Programming
Excellent book for anyone looking to quickly get up and programming VBA in Excel. Don't have to be familiar specifically with Visual Basic but a reasonable knowledge of programming a help. Would have given it 5 stars if it had a thorough reference section on VBA.