Definitive Guide to Excel VBA

✍ Scribed by Michael Kofler (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 922
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

New in the second editon:

• Covers Excel 2000 to 2003
• Explains how to access Web Services from Excel programs
• Shows you how to process lists and XML data with Excel 2003

Microsoft's Excel is not only a powerful spreadsheet and graphics toolit contains a programming language called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which allows you to automate simple tasks and enables you to create full-featured applications that make Excel users even more productive. In the Definitive Guide to Excel VBA, Second Edition, veteran author Michael Kofler provides exhaustive coverage of VBA for Excel, demonstrating how it can be used to implement real-world business solutions. Designed to be useful to programmers who have never used VBA before, it also covers advanced topics needed for users already familiar with VBA.

First, Kofler introduces VBA and the Excel object model, focusing on the unique characteristics of programming and debugging code associated with spreadsheets. The next few chapters cover menus, toolbars, forms, and templatesthe tools for creating customized user interfaces and full-featured applications. He then moves on to a broad range of advanced topics, including automating graphs and diagrams, accessing external databases from Excel, and analyzing data using grouping and pivot-tables. He even covers ActiveX automation and the access of Web Services using the Web Service Toolkit.

Throughout the book, Kofler never loses sight of the real-world problems faced by Excel programmers. The book also explores ways to avoid undocumented problems that may arise when programming Excel VBA—practical knowldege that was gained through years of hard experience.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Writing Your First Macro....Pages 3-45
What’s New in Excel 2000....Pages 47-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
The Development Environment....Pages 67-84
VBA Concepts....Pages 85-184
Techniques of Programming....Pages 185-369
Debugging, Protection When Errors Arise....Pages 371-386
Forms (Microsoft Forms Library)....Pages 387-456
Menus and Toolbars....Pages 457-492
Front Matter....Pages 493-493
Templates, Smart Forms....Pages 495-526
Charts and Drawing Objects (Shapes)....Pages 527-567
Data Management in Excel....Pages 569-618
Access to External Data....Pages 619-685
Data Analysis in Excel....Pages 687-729
VBA Programming for Pros....Pages 731-789
Front Matter....Pages 791-791
Object Reference....Pages 793-862
Back Matter....Pages 863-918

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems