Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Visual Basic® for Applications Step by Step - Softcover

Jacobson, Reed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 073562402X ISBN 13: 9780735624023

Publisher: Microsoft Press, 2007

Synopsis

Quickly teach yourself how to automate tasks and create custom spreadsheet solutions with Excel 2007 Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). With Step By Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

• Create macros to automate repetitive tasks
• Automatically format charts, shapes, and text
• Manipulate tables and other objects—even build PivotTable reports
• Write your own functions and procedures
• Use loops and conditions to add decision logic to macros
• Build custom command buttons, dialog boxes, and user forms

Your all-in-one learning experience includes:

• Files for building skills and practicing the book’s lessons
• Fully searchable eBook
• Windows Vista Product Guide eReference—plus other resources on CD

For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

About this title

From the Publisher

Key Book Benefits:

-Includes coverage of all the fundamentals, including how to automate spreadsheets, customizing menus, and writing your own functions and procedures

-Features easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on skill-building exercises

-Includes a companion CD with practice files and other resources

About the Author

Reed Jacobson is an expert in Excel and a popular author. In addition to writing about Excel Visual Basic since its inception, other authoring credits include Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services STEP BY STEP, Microsoft Excel 97 STEP BY STEP, Advanced Topics, and Microsoft Office 2000 Expert Companion. He has created several training courses on Microsoft Office and Visual Basic, and is a regular presenter at SQL PASS, Tech*Ed, and other Microsoft conferences and seminars. He is a senior architect for Hitachi Consulting, specializing in Business Intelligence solutions. Prior to joining Hitachi Consulting, Reed worked as a software application specialist for Hewlett Packard for 10 years and ran his own consulting firm for eight years. Reed received a BA in Japanese and Linguistics, an MBA from Brigham Young University, and he studied linguistics under a graduate fellowship at Cornell University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 073562402X
• ISBN 13: 9780735624023
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384