Writing Excel Macros With VBA, 2/e

Newly updated for Excel 2002, Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition provides Excel power-users, as well as programmers who are unfamiliar with the Excel object model, with a solid introduction to writing Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros and programs for Excel. In particular, the book focuses on:

The Visual Basic Editor and the Excel VBA programming environment. Excel features a complete, state-of-the-art integrated development environment for writing, running, testing and debugging VBA macros.

The VBA programming language, the same programming language used by the other applications in Microsoft Office XP and 2000, as well as by the retail editions of Visual Basic 6.0. The Excel object model, including new objects and new members of existing objects in Excel 2002. Excel exposes nearly all of its functionality through its object model, which is the means by which Excel can be controlled programmatically using VBA. While the Excel object model, with 192 objects, is the second largest among the Office applications, you need to be familiar with only a handful of objects to write effective macros. Writing Excel Macros focuses on these essential objects but includes a discussion of many more objects as well.

Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition is written in a terse, no-nonsense manner that is characteristic of Steven Roman's straightforward, practical approach. Instead of a slow-paced tutorial with a lot of handholding, Roman offers the essential information about Excel VBA that you must master to write macros effectively. This tutorial is reinforced by interesting and useful examples that solve common problems you're sure to have encountered.

Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition is the book you need to delve into the basics of Excel VBA programming, enabling you to increase your power and productivity.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Preliminaries

Chapter 3 The Visual Basic Editor, Part I

Chapter 4 The Visual Basic Editor, Part II

Chapter 5 Variables, Data Types, and Constants

Chapter 6 Functions and Subroutines

Chapter 7 Built-in Functions and Statements

Chapter 8 Control Statements

Chapter 9 Object Models

Chapter 10 Excel Applications

Chapter 11 Excel Events

Chapter 12 Custom Menus and Toolbars

Chapter 13 Built-In Dialog Boxes

Chapter 14 Custom Dialog Boxes

Chapter 15 The Excel Object Model

Chapter 16 The Application Object

Chapter 17 The Worksheet Object

Chapter 18 The Range Object

Chapter 19 Pivot Tables

Chapter 20 The Chart Object

Chapter 21 Smart Tags