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Title: Office XP Development with VBA by Peter G. Aitken ISBN: 0-13-065417-5 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 06 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointed!
Comment: I bought this book (along with the Microsoft Office Xp Developer's Guide by MS Press) hoping to learn about Office Xp development. What a disappointment! Fully one-third of this book (chapters 12-21) covers very elementary VBA syntax like datatypes, loops, writing procedures, error handling etc. Lord knows there are more than enough books on the market for those topics. This VBA material should have been put on a CD or some website to download for free.
I was looking for a book that assumes VBA knowledge and uses that as a starting point to thoroughly cover Office Xp development. My topic of interest, Word development, occupies just 1 chapter of 30 pages. To be fair some of preliminary chapters were useful for setting the scene. Looks like I'm going to have to piece things together from the MSDN website along with web searches and the MS support/KB articles - again.
Other books that sound like they could be good for Word development: 1. Word 2000 Developer's Handbook by Guy Hart-Davis; 2. Learn Word 2000 VBA Document Automation by Scott Driza; 3. Writing Word Macros by Steven Roman. I'm assuming that the Word 2000 object model is not too different from Word 2002 (i.e. Word Xp).
Rating: 1
Summary: There's gotta be better books out there for VBA beginners...
Comment: I was very disappointed in this publication. As a neophyte to VBA, I was looking for a presentation that is easy to understand, with many "hands-on" programming examples. This book does neither. The author says that the book is for beginners, but I found myself quickly lost; this book is clearly geared toward those having an intermediate level of VBA prowess, or at least some familiarity with VBA. Also, in one of the very few step-by-step programming examples Mr. Aitken does include (a program sending an e-mail to every contact listed in an Outlook address book), there were typographical errors in his code that set off my debugger!
If your looking for a VBA book that has easy-to-follow examples, save your money and buy something else. This one's a "dog with fleas" for a rookie like me.
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Title: Microsoft Office XP Developer's Guide by Microsoft Corporation ISBN: 0735612420 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 28 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit by The Microsoft Office Team, Microsoft Corporation ISBN: 0735614032 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 09 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
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Title: Writing Word Macros by Steven Roman ISBN: 1565927257 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: VBA Developer's Handbook, 2nd Edition by Ken Getz, Mike Gilbert ISBN: 0782129781 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 25 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Excel 2002 Power Programming with VBA by John Walkenbach ISBN: 0764547992 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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