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Summary: Well organized, clear writing; good investment
Review: I have found this book very useful. It is not for raw beginners, you should have at least dabbled in Visual Basic. The author gently encourages the reader to develop habits of documentation, formatting code with indents etc.He provides helpful overviews of objects, properties, methods. There are many examples, most are snippets to illustrate key points. Well organized, attractive page layouts, good index. CD with VBA examples (and more) adds much value.
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Summary: I definitely give it the highest rate
Review: I have the Excel 2000 edition of the book and like it very much. It's one of the best Excel VBA books I have. In the past I also read a few other good Excel VBA books, such as Simon Benninga's "Financial Modeling (2nd ed.)", S. Christian Albright's "VBA for Modelers - Developing Desision Support Systems with Microsoft Excel", Michael Kofler's "Definitive Guide to Excel VBA", John Green's "Excel 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference", and Eric Wells and Steve Harshbarger's "Excel 97 Developer's Handbook". All those book's author or co-author (except the last book I mentioned) cited John Walkenbach's book as major reference or recommended readers to read to learn more. When I saw the new edition displayed in book store (little earlier than Amazon.com), I just bought it. I still don't have Excel 2002 yet, but I already found some good stuff I can try on Excel 2000. However, I can't use the CD. I must type the code on VBE to try it.
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Summary: A wonderful book!
Review: I thought of myself as an Excel "expert" until I happened to come across this book at the bookstore. Imagine my surprise as I randomly flipped through the pages and found something new to me on every few pages. I ordered this book off Amazon and quickly read it from cover to cover. This is the most clearly written computer book I have ever read. If you enjoy working with spreadsheets, you will love this book. After reading this book, you will truly be an Excel "expert".
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Summary: A well written book
Review: I went over this book twice. Although I believe I understood most of it, I am not yet a power programmer.
This book is an intermediate book on Excel programming. Don't expect to become an expert from it. The book is very well written and John Walkenbach writes in a way that no other programmer does. The book stimulates the interest of the reader in Excel. The examples are well explained. I did not give this book five stars because the Windows API is not explained in depth.
According to me the path of the books to Excel programming is:
1 Excel The Bible( the second half of the book)
2 Excel for Power Programmers
3 Excel 2002 VBA Programmer's reference
The last book in the list is not for inexperienced programmers and is not as pleasant to read( So do not start with it).
I also recommend Excel 2002 formulas if the would be programmer does not have an extensive experience in Excel
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Summary: A helpful reference for any level
Review: It has been a great reference. It has saved me many hours of digging through the Excel Help screens. The book is layed out well.
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Summary: Consistently Rated Number 1 for Serious Excel Users
Review: John Walkenbach is consistently rated the Number 1 writer on Excel and this latest edition fully justifies that rating. It's rare that an author can combine a fluid and easily readable text at this level of expertise. Hundreds of easily understandable examples. Builds up the basic principles and empowers further development. A compulsory reference with clearly marked differences between Excel 2002 and earlier versions. Beginners should buy John Walkenbach's Excel Bible Gold Edition first.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: John, if you read these reviews, ide just like to say well done!!
Ive got quite a few books on VBA but this is by far the best.Im by no means an Excel guru, but found myself being asked to automate lots of tasks in excel for a new job I had. Im a VB/Database programmer by trade and I needed a book to bring me upto speed with the Excel Object model. The book done this and taught me a whole lot more in the process. Its well presented and the examples are all "realworld" which I found really handy.
Fully recommended to any Excel/VBA beginner or reference for a guru.
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Summary: Bravo!
Review: Outstanding reference and how to manual for Excel macro programming. A must have for anyone who has ambitions of writing their own programs for Excel. John's clear, organized, and comprehensible writing style allows even a novice programmer to immediately begin to write Excel macros that really do something, and do something useful. His book is chock full of useful code examples. Get two copies. It is that good.
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Summary: No Organization
Review: Reviewer zitouni from Paris, France got it exactly right. This book is "stream of conciousness". No organization - subjects scattered everywhere - no concept of teaching the material and addressing natural questions that arise in doing things. BOTTOM LINE: Read another book - e.g. Kofler, or Roman, or Albright
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Summary: Overly long and light on content + Snake oil salesman
Review: The book is poorly organized, and has a very high number of pages considering the amount of content. Of course, that means you can whip through 50-100 pages in each sitting, but you don't get that much out of it. What I found especially annoying was that there is a CD with utilities included, but if you want the source code for these utilities, you have to pay extra $. Also, there is amazing restrictive licensing agreement on the use of any code that appears on the CD (for example ".. you may not .. modify, adapt, or create derivative works based on this software"). This book is a pitch by the author to sell you one of his many other books or software products. The author is a one-man industry who writes one Excel book after another (21 books so far according to my Amazon.com search), and sells his own software on the side, and that's what he does for a living. I'm sure he makes a very good living at it, but I for one am sorry I purchased this book.
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