Excel VBA Programming for Dummies (For Dummies (Computers))

by JohnWalkenbach (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $3.25

  Take your Excel skills to the next level with VBA programming Now that you've mastered Excel basics, it's time to move to the next level-creating your own, customized Excel 2010 solutions using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). The new edition of this non-threatening guide is your key to getting there. Using step-by-step instruction and the accessible, friendly For Dummies style, this practical book shows you how to use VBA, write macros, customize your Excel apps to look and work the way you want, avoid errors, and more. The book's Web site provides all the programming examples from the book. Introduces you to a new range of Excel 2010 options Shows you how to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to program your own custom Excel applications or to automate functions Explains how to create VBA macros, program, handle errors, debug, and more Covers Visual Basic Editor tools and functions; working with range objects; controlling program flow; and the easiest ways to create custom dialog boxes, toolbars, and menus Includes a companion Web site with all the sample programs from the book Create your own, custom Excel programs with this information-packed guide! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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  Paperback
  2004

  $3.25

  Having Excel and just using it for standard spreadsheets is a little like getting the ultimate cable system and a 50 flat panel plasma HDTV and using it exclusively to watch Lawrence Welk reruns. With Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming, you can take advantage of numerous Excel options such as: creating new worksheet functions; automating tasks and operations; creating new appearances, toolbars, and menus; designing custom dialog boxes and add-ins; and, much more. This guide is not for rank Excel amateurs. It's for intermediate to advanced Excel users who want to learn VBA programming (or whose bosses want them to learn VBA programming). You need to know your way around Excel before you start creating customized short cuts or systems for speeding through Excel functions. If you're an intermediate or advanced Excel user, Excel VBA For Dummies helps you take your skills (and your spreadsheets) to the next level.It includes: an introduction to the VBA language; a hands-on, guided, step-by-step walk through developing a useful VBA macro, including recording, testing, and changing it, and testing it; the essential foundation, including the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) and its components, modules, Excel object model, subroutines and functions, and the Excel macro recorder; the essential VBA language elements, including comments, variables and constants, and labels; working with Range objects and discovering useful Range objective properties and methods; using VBA and worksheet functions, including a list and examples; programming constructions, including the GoTo statement, the If-Then structure, Select Case, For-Next loop, Do-While loop, and Do-Until loop; and, automatic procedures and Workbook events, including a table and event-handler procedures. This title also includes: error-handling and bug extermination techniques, and using the Excel debugging tools; creating custom dialog boxes, also known as UserForms, with a table of the toolbox controls and their capabilities, how-to for the dialog box controls, and UserForm techniques and tricks; customizing the Excel toolbars; using VBA code to modify the Excel menu system; creating worksheet functions and working with various types of arguments; and, creating Excel add-ins such as new worksheet functions you can use in formulas or new commands or utilities.Author John Walkenbach is a leading authority on spreadsheet software and the author of more than 40 spreadsheet books including Excel 2003 Bible and Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA . While this guide includes tons of examples and screenshots, Walkenbach knows there's no substitute for hands-on learning. The book is complete with a dedicated companion Web site that includes bonus chapters plus all sample programs to save you a lot of typing and let you play around and experiment with various changes and information to help you make the most of Excel's built-in Help system so you can find out other stuff you may need to know. What are you waiting for? Sure, learning to do VBA programming takes a little effort, but it's a very big accomplishment.