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Title: Learn Word 2000 VBA Document Automation by Scott Driza ISBN: 1-55622-751-5 Publisher: Wordware Publishing Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Long on Narrative, Short on Examples
Comment: As far as I know, I have read every book written on VBA for Microsoft Word. As a technical writer who likes to produce customized time savers and solutions for Word, I rely heavily on macros in my daily work.
Because there are so few books on the subject of writing Word macros, and because none of the available books on the market has complete coverage, I was delighted to find the Driza book in a bookstore. I bought it in spite of its hefty price (which I consider downright unreasonable, now that I have used this book in detail).
I was attracted to this book because it seemed to cover advanced topics I could not find well-documented in Windows Help or in other books (e.g., class module implementation, Windows API calls, and custom collections). While this book contains lengthy explanations of many of these concepts, it fails miserably at providing what counts: useful examples. Where examples are provided, they are mostly--as another reviewer called them--snippets.
In other cases, the examples are either non-existent (e.g., custom collections) or useless. Who needs to know how to create a class called "dogname"? This book lacks real-world, practical applications.
This may be the ONLY computer book I have ever read that actually sent me running to the Word VBA Help files. The explanation of document variables was so poor that I went searching through Help, where I found some code that I copied and tweaked until it did what I needed. THEN I really understood the concept.
This book passes as an idea book. But the key word in the title is "Learn." It's NOT a good tutorial, nor a good reference. My advice: don't waste your money. Buy Steven Roman's Writing Word Macros or Guy Hart-Davis's Word 2000 Developer's Handbook.
Rating: 5
Summary: HMMM - didn't know you could do this stuff?
Comment: First off, I think this book could've went through a more extensive revision process. I think there are places where information is glossed over that a careful editor would have had the author expand on.
That said, I found this book very useful. It doesn't give any "Full Blown" projects to steal and modify, but there are tons of useful snippets in here. More than anything it introduces you to a different, creative way of using Word.
Sometimes, however, I think he may be pushing the envelope too far. For instance, using the Windows API. I'd be very apprehensive to use the Windows API extensively in any Office/VBA project - however, the book talked about it and the code did in fact work? Your option here.
Looking forward to seeing more info on VBA and Word 2002 by this guy and Steven Roman. Roman's books are good too. Very concise, but great references.
Rating: 3
Summary: Well written book but no real good examples
Comment: Well, I like many of the other people writing reviews here bought this book because frankly there are not a lot of Word VBA book out in the market. I have to say first that the way the book is organized and written was well done. That's why I gave 3 stars. However, I would've liked to have seen more descriptions on many of the methods the book glosses over. In short, it's a good reference but really the help file is just as good.
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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: Word 2000 Developer's Handbook by Guy Hart-Davis ISBN: 0782123295 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic Applications for Office 2000 Unleashed by Paul McFedries ISBN: 067231567X Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Word 2000 VBA Programmers Reference by Duncan Mackenzie, Felipe Martin ISBN: 1861002556 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Developing Solutions With Office 2000 Components and Vba by Peter G. Aitken ISBN: 0130263052 Publisher: Pearson Education POD Pub. Date: 12 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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