Sams Teach Yourself Excel 2000 Programming in 24 Hours

This is a useful self-study course for anyone wanting to get started in Excel VBA programming. Each unit has a Q & A page and workshop excercises so you can make sure you've understood the unit you've just studied. I managed to complete most units in under an hour, so I was able to go from zero to writing useful Excel macros in about a week and a half. I still keep the book on my desk as a handy reference. Well written and easy to follow, this is a good book for beginners.

This is the book you get when you are moving from user to power user. I bought this book when I was temping and learned vba fast and well enough to get my next assignment. It lead me to more in depth books but this one guided me enough to give me a taste. Within in a couple of chapters your got some cool stuff running. It even shows you how you can make Excel talk to Word. These "in 24 Hour" books serve to get you there fast and not to be an in depth book for the subject so it served its purpose. It could use more screen shots for the absolute beginner.

This book is an excelent introduction. It covers all of the basics, even basic programming for those who don't know much about Visual Basic. I am an investor who uses Excel to track my holdings and to create complex charts and graphs. After reading this book I was able to create macros and applets that have saved my countless hours of work. Not only that, but I am now tracking my investments in ways that I had never imagined before. This book is a great introduction, not only to Excel programming, but also to automation in general. The author explains to the reader how to extract elements and/or information from Excel and paste them into Word documents. He presents the information in such a way that I have been able to extend his automation examples to PowerPoint and Front Page as well, which the book doesn't even cover. In all, I would have to give this title five stars. If you use Excel at all, then you should save yourself some time and buy this book.