Teach Yourself Visual Basic for Applications 5 in 21 Days

There are several handbooks about VBA but none of them tell you as much about Object Oriented Programming as this book [in a way that can be understood].This book is very well suited for anyone with some advanced programming experience and knowledge of Excel.I like it!

I cannot emphasize enough the utility of this book! I had NO programming experience but since reading this book, I am prolific in writing code. The book progresses logically and slowly step by step allowing a self-paced environment. The best attribute of this book is that it is also a great reference book. I dont expect this book to ever be obsolete. Well worth the price and time/effort needed to read it!!

Hi -I had to write and tell you what a great job Matthew Harris did in "Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic for Applications 5 in 21 Days (Third Edition)". I am a computer consultant and a Certified Technical Trainer. Good books, especially at the neophyte level for programming, are hard to find. Most of them make assumptions that the reader has prior programming knowledge, which is often not the case at all. I purchased this book initially as a recommendation to someone who wanted to learn VBA, but had no prior experience even with macros, much less programming.The book is clear, clean, and thorough in its treatment of the subject. It is also pleasantly devoid of typos, grammatical errors, missing text, etc. which makes me crazy in too many of the books I read, especially computer books. The examples make sense and flow smoothly from the very basic to gradual, increased complexity. I will use this book whenever possible in my classes on introductory VBA.Thank you for providing me with such an excellent tool.Sincerely,Linda Dawn Bozick, President, Enterprises, Inc.

Good overall lessons. However, I have not worked my way through the whole book yet, but at a glance I have noticed that there is not much treatment of Access issues, which is why I wanted a VBA book. I went for the book thinking it would cover each application equally, but I should have looked more closely. Still, Access, Outlook, etc., should not be listed on the cover with equal billing.

Having completed about half the book I can say that the examples are clear and straightforward. Understanding how Macros work can help you to crack them open and write better, more powerful macros than ever before! This text will also help you to understand Visual Basic as the syntax is nearly identical, a big plus in today's corporate computing environment.