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

Preface 

1. Introduction

Part I. The VBA Environment

2. Preliminaries
3. The Visual Basic Editor, Part I
4. The Visual Basic Editor, Part II
 

Part II. The VBA Programming Language

5. Variables, Data Types, and Constants
6. Functions and Subroutines
7. Built-in Functions and Statements
8. Control Statements

Part III. Excel Applications and the Excel Object Model

9. Object Models
10. Excel Applications
11. Excel Events
12. Custom Menus and Toolbars
13. Built-In Dialog Boxes
14. Custom Dialog Boxes
15. The Excel Object Model
16. The Application Object
17. The Workbook Object
18. The Worksheet Object
19. The Range Object
20. Pivot Tables
21. The Chart Object
22. Smart Tags

Part IV. Appendixes

A. The Shape Object
B. Getting the Installed Printers
C. Command Bar Controls
D. Face IDs
E. Programming Excelfrom Another Application
F. High-Level and Low-Level Languages
G. New Objects in Excel XP
Index