Using Excel Visual Basic for Applications, Special Edition

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Summary: Comprehensive reference, weak on examples
Review: This book has two sections: An explanation of fundamentals and a programmer's reference.I bought the book primarily due to the comprehensive reference, but after using the book to try to write VBA code, I discovered that I needed more examples to examine. Don't get me wrong, it's a good book as programming reference, but it probably shouldn't be your first book on Excel VBA. I think the book would have been much more useful with a companion CDROM that contained a hyperlinked programming reference.

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Summary: Excellent Reference
Review: This book is a complete reference for all aspects of Excel VBA. A great source of information for beginners and experienced programmers.

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Summary: Hopelessly out of date
Review: This book is just not useful anymore. The code is old and the dialog boxes don't look or function the same anymore. I'm not new to programming, but a beginner would be totally lost. As it is I am going to send this one back and get a more up to date one, just in case I can't jam my way out of it. There also might be (and probably are) newer features not covered in this book.

Aside from that, it looks as if it could have been a great book in its time. When are you guys going to publish an up to date one?

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Summary: Code doesn't work
Review: Ugh, I bought this book hoping it would explain some very simple operations for me. These are the types of operations that you would normally us SAS or Minitab or STATA for--but with the all the promise of Excel, I couldn't resist. What a mistake! Don't buy this book until you are sure it is what you want!

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Summary: This isn't the book for beginners (or intermediate or ... )
Review: Ugh, I bought this book hoping it would explain some very simple operations for me. These are the types of operations that you would normally us SAS or Minitab or STATA for--but with the all the promise of Excel, I couldn't resist. What a mistake! Don't buy this book until you are sure it is what you want!