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Summary: dPhilc's Review
Review: A highly lucid text indeed on a topic area that not many writers have even attempt to get to grips with. After writing this text, I began to create add-in from memory. It's a shame there aren't more books like it.
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Summary: Didn't get much out of it
Review: I tried to write an add-in. I got it working, but as far as getting it to really do what I wanted (something similar to NuMega DevPartner which can act on particular files in the project), this book didn't get me there. I'm not sure if the author has built any really useful add-ins either. There's certainly a market for a good book on it, but this isn't it. FWIW, I have the same author's book on programming Word, and I didn't find that any more useful than the online documentation, so perhaps this author just needs to get more into the material and then share what he learns. This book is probably too short, and perhaps the space to properly expound on the material was limited by the publisher.
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Summary: Decent, but . . .
Review: I was originally going to give this book 3 stars, but after reading the author's retaliatory comments, the best I could offer is a 2 (and I will never buy one of his books again - crybaby).Mr. Roman's earlier book, Learn Word Programming, was excellent. Naturally, this lead me to believe that this book would be just as good. It wasn't. I try to suggest other books in my reviews, but there aren't many that cover this exact topic. You might want to check "Learn Word 2000 VBA Document Automation", it has a few projects in there, but they are mainly concerned with Word. Other than that, I guess we will just have to wait for awhile.
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Summary: Clear, concise and to the point
Review: Like others, I purchased this book because I was tired of screwing up my face at the pathetic Microsoft documentation. Dr. Roman's explanations and sample code got right to the heart of the matter. Major kudos...
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Summary: Clear, concise and to the point
Review: Like others, I purchased this book because I was tired of screwing up my face at the pathetic Microsoft documentation. Dr. Roman's explanations and sample code got right to the heart of the matter. Major kudos...
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Summary: Very clear and well-written
Review: With great excitement I purchased this book, when thumbing through it in the store it looked really promising. It truly does give alot more information than MS does, but it still leaves you confused a bit. The object models are shrugged off to very little commentary and figuring out the complexities of manipulating objects within a large program is not even touched. I had hoped that this topic had finally gotten serious consideration, it appears that this was only meant to be an intro book. I would highly recommend it if you only want to know what an add-in is, but if you want to do some serious programming with addins, you'll need alot more than this book.
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