Developing Solutions With Office 2000 Components and Vba

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Summary: For the Developer, Not For Beginners...
Review: "Developing Solutions With Office 2000 Components and VBA" is a good book for someone who understands the big picture of the hows and whys of VBA. If you need to be led through a few complete examples or see why you would want to program a certain situation, this book is not for you. Aitken warns you of this in the introduction. For those of us a little slow on the uptake, better find another book with which to start. Come back to this book when you are ready to develop.

Rating:
Summary: For the Developer, Not For Beginners...
Review: "Developing Solutions With Office 2000 Components and VBA" is a good book for someone who understands the big picture of the hows and whys of VBA. If you need to be led through a few complete examples or see why you would want to program a certain situation, this book is not for you. Aitken warns you of this in the introduction. For those of us a little slow on the uptake, better find another book with which to start. Come back to this book when you are ready to develop.

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Summary: terrible book
Review: I don't generally complaing about books so much, but this one I feel like burning. It was so skimpy in its coverage of each topic, that I found it pretty much useless. 30 pages about microsoft word - not very much, IMO. I would reommend Michael Kofler's "Definitive Guide to Excel VBA" (Apress) for Excel. Possibly Guy Hard-Davis "Word 2000 Developer's Handbook" (Sybex) for Word. And MS-online help for the other applications, i guess. Others have had better luck with this book it seems, so good luck in your own choice!

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Summary: terrible book
Review: I don't generally complaing about books so much, but this one I feel like burning. It was so skimpy in its coverage of each topic, that I found it pretty much useless. 30 pages about microsoft word - not very much, IMO. I would reommend Michael Kofler's "Definitive Guide to Excel VBA" (Apress) for Excel. Possibly Guy Hard-Davis "Word 2000 Developer's Handbook" (Sybex) for Word. And MS-online help for the other applications, i guess. Others have had better luck with this book it seems, so good luck in your own choice!

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Summary: Decent Reference Book - A little slow paced
Review: I had been working with the Office 2000 Suite and needed to create some automation. I was able to successfully link a Word document to an Access database in order to create an automated status report. The book also assisted in the creation of the template (in the Word document) and how to lock cells/data within the Word document to prevent manipulation.

What I did not like was the slow pace of the book. Two-thirds of each application section (Word, Excel, etc.) was just a rehash of "Office automation 101", information that could be gleaned from working with macros. I think that may be beneficial to someone just beginning work with Office Automation and VBA, however it is not to useful for the intermediate/advanced user.

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Summary: Good book
Review: I liked this book quite a bit. It covers the material well and the author does a fair, but adequate job of explaining the concepts. All in all it will serve you well.

This book seems to skip around quite a bit, but there is always a lot of material to cover.

One of the best books on Office Automation and getting things to work together is Learn Word 2000 VBA Document Automation (author: driza). Another book that some people liked (and some people didn't!) was by Steven Roman on Developing Office Add-ins. Roman's Word macro book is also fair.

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Summary: Completely useless
Review: Let me right away start with a disclaimer. I bought this book even without browsing it through because I have enormous respect for the guy based on his older books such as
The Peter Norton PC Programmer's Bible-(where he was a coauthor)
and books on C.
Those at their times were very useful to me because they were written from field experience.

This one.... seems just a rehash of online help.

I rather read on this subject from someone who has been in trenches in this particular subject, even if they are not decorated veterans. For just Excel VBA for example Walkenbach and Koefler are much more useful.



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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: This book really opened my eyes about writing programs for Office. I knew you could record little macros but I had no idea how much great custom programming is possible. I really like getting the different programs to work together. This book made it all pretty easy. It has clear explanations and the writing style is easy to read. There is lots of example code, too. I recommend it highly.