Office XP Development with VBA

by Peter G. Aitken

Introduces the software components behind the Office suite and how they can be manipulated with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to create custom business solutions. The author identifies the key... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130654175
• ISBN13: 9780130654175
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Useful overview, makes a good reference

I'm a VBA programmer working in Office 2002/XP, and this book and Steve Roman's "Writing Word Macros" are my main references. The book (Aitken's "Office XP Development") has a useful 12 page chapter on Powerpoint VBA, (very handy, since there are NO books on Powerpoint VBA development available, and very little info on the web), and also has an introduction to the Windows API (which saved my life). Since the book covers all six Office apps, and then some, it naturally can't provide the level of detail of a single application book, but I think it's a useful addition to a VBA programmers bookshelf. It's very readable, and explains some tricky concepts well. On the whole, I think it's a great alternative to buying six separate books to cover the Office suite.