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Summary: Beginners Only
Review: I am a Visual Basic developer and I bought this book to expand into VBA. The book provides a decent amount of explanation of many topics, but does not go into detail about any of them. Also, the code examples are brief at best and did not help me at all. After working on a project referencing this book for a few days, I was not able to get my Word document automated. I got more help from the MSDN and the Object Browser. If you already know VB, don't bother with this book.
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Summary: Very Basic
Review: I bought this book to supplement Steve Roman's "Learning Word Programming" and found it very useful for learning to use VBA for Word although it was a little light. To me the most useful chapter was the one for creating a wizard, and I was able to use that information to create interactive smart forms. I would have liked to see more on creating forms (what the author calls "user forms" - what we think of as VB forms) but at least there is some information. A plain VB book (such as John Smiley's "Learn to Program with VB 6") is a good supplement to more advanced tasks a programmer might want to do. All in all, for someone with no programming experience, this is a useful book, easy to read and with plenty of exercises to practice with and a brief (could be longer) analysis of the code that accompanies each exercise.
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Summary: A useful tool for beginners
Review: I bought this book to supplement Steve Roman's "Learning Word Programming" and found it very useful for learning to use VBA for Word although it was a little light. To me the most useful chapter was the one for creating a wizard, and I was able to use that information to create interactive smart forms. I would have liked to see more on creating forms (what the author calls "user forms" - what we think of as VB forms) but at least there is some information. A plain VB book (such as John Smiley's "Learn to Program with VB 6") is a good supplement to more advanced tasks a programmer might want to do. All in all, for someone with no programming experience, this is a useful book, easy to read and with plenty of exercises to practice with and a brief (could be longer) analysis of the code that accompanies each exercise.
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Summary: Very Basic
Review: I buy as many Office/Word/VBA books as I can get my hands on... You never know where you are going to get that little piece of knowledge that will help. Now you know why I bought this book.This book was good, but pretty basic. I expected much more out of it. For what it's worth, I bought this around the same time I bought "Learn Word 2000 VBA Document Automation" - which is a GREAT book on Word programming (probably the only book that shows you how to automate documents in several different ways). Anyway, if I were starting out, just learning how to write macros, this would be a great book and would've gotten five stars. I think the title and subject matter are a little deceiving though. It is definitely comprised of introductory material. Happy programming.
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Summary: A Mess
Review: I have read this book cover to cover (with my highlighter and pencil at the ready) and I've never been more frustrated in all my life. I work with Word everyday and am looking to automate documents and I can make no sense out of any of it. (Of course, there is a strong possibility that I'm stupid and in over my head - but if you think you're going to learn to create templates and fill-in forms and learn to use If-then-else fields, etc., well, I missed it.)
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Summary: A Mess
Review: I have read this book cover to cover (with my highlighter and pencil at the ready) and I've never been more frustrated in all my life. I work with Word everyday and am looking to automate documents and I can make no sense out of any of it. (Of course, there is a strong possibility that I'm stupid and in over my head - but if you think you're going to learn to create templates and fill-in forms and learn to use If-then-else fields, etc., well, I missed it.)
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Summary: web support gone
Review: The publisher classifies this book as a "beginning level" on the back cover, so it's hard to complain that this is accurate. However, the web support for the book is gone, and downloads that it draws upon are therefore not available anymore.
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Summary: web support gone
Review: The publisher classifies this book as a "beginning level" on the back cover, so it's hard to complain that this is accurate. However, the web support for the book is gone, and downloads that it draws upon are therefore not available anymore.
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Summary: The source code is still there, but relocated
Review: To be fair, it is not a bad book to learn Word/VBA. The user level is correctly marked as "Beginning", so don't ask too much or criticize too harsh. To learn a new skill, one book is not enough. I like a "simple and easy" book like this to gain the fundamental in less than 3 days, then look for an advanced one. Besides, the source code is still on MCP's Web, but in different place (click SAMS on mcp.com, type the key words of the book title in the search box, you should find it). Lot of readers depends on other people's feedback to decide if they should buy a book, so be responsible to your "review". By the way, I am not the author's friend and not affiliated with MCP, SAMS, or Amazon. I am a reader who knows how difficult to find a "right" book, and don't like to see anybody be mislead.
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Summary: The source code is still there, but relocated
Review: To be fair, it is not a bad book to learn Word/VBA. The user level is correctly marked as "Beginning", so don't ask too much or criticize too harsh. To learn a new skill, one book is not enough. I like a "simple and easy" book like this to gain the fundamental in less than 3 days, then look for an advanced one. Besides, the source code is still on MCP's Web, but in different place (click SAMS on mcp.com, type the key words of the book title in the search box, you should find it). Lot of readers depends on other people's feedback to decide if they should buy a book, so be responsible to your "review". By the way, I am not the author's friend and not affiliated with MCP, SAMS, or Amazon. I am a reader who knows how difficult to find a "right" book, and don't like to see anybody be mislead.
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