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Summary: Not a very good book
Review: I think the review from "A reader from Lawrenceville" got it right.It is not a good book. It is mostly a list of the various classes and their properties and methods. It can be useful for getting an overview, but it soon becomes tedious. It does not cover vital suff like Word application event handling. I suppose the only reason that it still sells is that all the other Word VBA books are out of print.
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Summary: Not the Book for me
Review: I thought this book was awefull. The author kept listing the objects available in Word along with some woefull examples that I could of easily done using the macro recorder. He also rehashed examples that are available in the VBA Help files. The reason I bought the book was to get away from those very VBA help files in the first place. This book was no help to me!
Rating:
Summary: Not much help
Review: I was looking for a book with plenty of examples from an author that wanted to share his knowledge of VBA for Word. There is little doubt the author has knowledge of using VBA for Word. I
found, as other reviewers have found there wasn't enough thought put into the examples. I think if the author should have spent more time developing examples to be incorporated into a larger application. So the reader would have a better understanding of the big picture. Instead he used his energy to poke at Microsoft, everybody knows that nothing is perfect and certainly not Microsoft. I will be looking for other sources to learn from. This book will go on the shelf.
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Summary: writing word macros
Review: If you are looking for a concise reference to using word macros - don't bother with this book. This book is written in the style of so many "junk books" today that seem to market themselves around waffle thinly veneered as fact. The pages meander aimlessly around the subject without truly coming to grips with any one aspect. With this book as with so many before it, I am bound to ask whether the public at large are simple minded or just plain stupid. The book would be better served as a bed time story than to purport to be of much assistance in writing word macros. So much of the text is taken up with superfluous diction and "as I previously have stated" chunks of text, that any really useful information is difficult to locate and the reader would be better served to save their money and refer to the online help in VBA which, if obtuse, is at least concise.
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Summary: Not enough thought
Review: The author has not really tried to be helpful. He doesn't even describe how to use the clipboard to copy and paste. Granted, this has been made more difficult in Word 2000, and requires some extra material, but it is such a fundamental issue it is hard to see how it can be completely ignored.
Rating:
Summary: Save your money.
Review: This book was not much help to me, goes into theory to much and not enough examples, I recommend to anyone wanting to learn VBA to buy Word 2000 Developer's Handbook by Guy Hart-Davis.
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent introduction, well targeted examples
Review: This is a great introduction to Word VBA. The first 100 pages are general background on programming and VBA. The strength of the book is in its explanations of the Word object model. It also has nice example code, e.g., "Adding, Opening, and Saving Documents". If you have only one Word VBA book, this one will do quite nicely.
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Summary: Excellent introduction, well targeted examples
Review: This is a great introduction to Word VBA. The first 100 pages are general background on programming and VBA. The strength of the book is in its explanations of the Word object model. It also has nice example code, e.g., "Adding, Opening, and Saving Documents". If you have only one Word VBA book, this one will do quite nicely.
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