by Bill Jelen (Author), Bill Jelen (Author), Tracy Syrstad (Author)
In this day and age of `too much information and not enough time,' the ability to get to the bottom line quickly and in a concise method is what excels companies to the top of their industry. The techniques in this book will allow you to do things you only dreamt of.
-Jerry Kohl, president of Brighton Collectibles
Develop your Excel macro programming skills using VBA instantly with proven techniques
Automate Reports
Handle Errors
Master Pivot Tables
Produce Charts
Build User-Defined Functions
Migrate to Excel 2007
Query Web Data
Build Dialog Boxes
Use Data Visualizations
Automate Word
You are an expert in Excel, but the macro recorder doesn't work and you can't make heads or tails out of the recorded code. If this is you, buy this book. Macros that you record today might work today but not tomorrow. Recorded macros might handle a dataset with 14 records but not one with 12 or 16 records. These are all common problems with the macro recorder that unfortunately cause too many Excel gurus to turn away from writing macros. This book shows you why the macro recorder fails and the steps needed to convert recorded code into code that will work every day with every dataset. The book assumes that you know Excel well, but there is no need for prior programming experience. This book describes everything you could conceivably need to know to automate reports and design applications in Excel VBA. Whether you want to automate reports for your office or design full-blown applications for others, this book is for you.
Introduction 1
1 Unleash the Power of Excel with VBA 7
2 This Sounds Like BASIC, So Why Doesn't It Look Familiar? 29
3 Referring to Ranges 61
4 User-Defined Functions 75
5 Looping and Flow Control 101
6 R1C1-Style Formulas 121
7 What's New in Excel 2007 and What's Changed 135
8 Create and Manipulate Names in VBA 143
9 Event Programming 155
10 UserForms--An Introduction 177
11 Creating Charts 197
12 Data Mining with Advanced Filter 249
13 Using VBA to Create Pivot Tables 281
14 Excel Power 337
15 Data Visualizations and Conditional Formatting 373
16 Reading from and Writing to the Web 393
17 XML in Excel 2007 413
18 Automating Word 421
19 Arrays 441
20 Text File Processing 449
21 Using Access as a Back End to Enhance Multi-User Access to Data 461
22 Creating Classes, Records, and Collections 477
23 Advanced UserForm Techniques 493
24 Windows Application Programming Interface (API) 517
25 Handling Errors 529
26 Customizing the Ribbon to Run Macros 543
27 Creating Add-Ins 569
Index 577
Format: Paperback
Pages: 624
Edition: 2
Publisher: QUE
Published: 09 Aug 2007
ISBN 10: 0789736829
ISBN 13: 9780789736826
Book Overview: This book will dramatically increase white collar productivity. Given the current state of MIS departments, this reader is probably stuck in a user department and can't get the reports they need in a timely manner. They've taken matters into their own hands, importing raw data daily and performing time-consuming manipulations using Excel's power tools. We teach them how to automate these processes, dramatically saving hours of time. a) The book is written from the perspective of Excel power users who are trying to get up the VBA learning curve. The authors take the reader up those painful initial steps of the learning curve and by chapter 3, the reader will understand why their attempts to use the macro recorder have failed and have the confidence that Bill and Tracy will solve their problems. b) There are generations of readers who have only learned procedural languages such as COBOL or BASIC. These novice programmers are confused by the seemingly senseless syntax of object oriented languages such as VBA. In very simple to understand language, the authors explain what is going on and why. Chapter 2 is destined to become the greatest introduction to Object Oriented Programming for the common person ever written. c) Even if you've never programmed before, this book will take you up the learning curve to enable you to automate common tasks in Microsoft Excel.
Tracy Syrstad remembers the painful trek up the VBA learning curve while developing applications for herself and co-workers at a former job. Now, as the project manager for the MrExcel consulting team, she enjoys helping clients develop custom solutions for their unique situations, observing the myriad ways people use Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.