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Microsoft Office Programming

A Guide for Experienced Developers

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Rod Stephens
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  • Covers all the major Office applications in a single book
  • Skips introductory material programmers already know so it can explore programming in more depth than competition
  • Examines in-depth each application's object model
  • Provides many examples that show the user how to solve real-world problems
  • Shows how to use multiple Office applications together to build integrated solutions

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Rod Stephens
    Pages 1-12

  3. Macros

    • Rod Stephens
    Pages 13-53

  4. Customizing Office

    • Rod Stephens
    Pages 55-86

  5. Automatic Customization

    • Rod Stephens
    Pages 87-140

  6. Office Programming the Easy Way: OLE

    • Rod Stephens
    Pages 141-222

  7. Introduction to Office XP Object Models

    • Rod Stephens
    Pages 223-260

  8. Word

    • Rod Stephens
    Pages 261-341

  9. Excel

    • Rod Stephens
    Pages 343-410

  10. PowerPoint

    • Rod Stephens
    Pages 411-467

  11. Access

    • Rod Stephens
    Pages 469-522

  12. Access and ADO

    • Rod Stephens
    Pages 523-553

  13. Outlook

    • Rod Stephens
    Pages 555-590

  14. Outlook, MAPI, and CDO

    • Rod Stephens
    Pages 591-610

  15. Smart Tags

    • Rod Stephens
    Pages 611-636

  16. Office 2003

    • Rod Stephens
    Pages 637-684

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 685-714
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About this book

By using the same back-end macro programming language, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Microsoft Office applications allow users to easily transfer their VBA programming skills from one Office product to another. A developer skilled at using VBA to program Access can quickly learn to program Word or Excel. Better still, VBA is a fairly complete subset of Visual Basic (VB). That means a VB developer already knows how to use VBA, and a VBA programmer knows a lot about VB.

Author Rod Stephens gives you the most valuable information possible as quickly as possible without rehashing the trivial VB and VBA details you already can recite in your sleep. In Microsoft Office Programming: A Guide for Experienced Developers, Stephens skips the tiresome explanations of variable declarations and dives right into serious Office programming topics, such as automatically customizing menus and toolbars with VBA, making Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) do your work for you, and using ADO to manipulate data in an Access database.

About the author

In a previous incarnation, Rod Stephens was a mathematician. During his stint at MIT, he discovered the joys of algorithms and graphics, and has been programming professionally ever since. During his career, he has worked on an eclectic assortment of applications spanning such topics as repair dispatch, telephone switch programming, tax processing, and training for professional football players. Rod has written more than a dozen books that have been translated into half a dozen different languages, and more than 200 magazine articles covering Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, Delphi, and Java. He is a columnist for Hardcore Visual Basic. Rod's popular website, VB Helper (http://www.vb-helper.com) receives several million hits per month and contains more than a thousand pages of tips, tricks, and example code for Visual Basic programmers.

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