Writing Excel Macros with VBA

Updated for Excel 2002, this text offers Excel power-users, as well as programmers who are unfamiliar with the Excel object model, with an introduction to writing Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros and programs for Excel. In particular, the book focuses on: the Visual Basic Editor and the Excel VBA programming environment. Excel features a complete , state-of-the-art integ rated development environment for writing, running, testing, and debugging VBA macros. The VBA programming language, the same programming language used by the other applications in Microsoft Office XP and 2000, as well as by the retail editions of Visual Basic 6.0. The Excel object model, including new objects and new members of existing objects in Excel 2002. Excel exposes nearly all of its functionality through its object model, which is the means by which Excel can be controlled programmatically using VBA. While the Excel object model, with 192 objects, is the second largest among the Office applications, you need to be familiar with only a handful of objects to write effective macros. Writing Excel Macros focuses on these essential objects, but includes a discussion of many more objects as well.

Author Biography

Steven Roman is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the California State University, Fullerton. His previous books with O’Reilly include Access Database Design and Programming, Writing Excel Macros, and Win32 API Programming with Visual Basic.