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

Experience learning made easy, and quickly teach yourself Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)--one step at a time! Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps and practice files on CD, and master the fundamentals for using VBA to create custom software solutions and automating tasks in Excel 2007--no developer experience required! You'll learn how to automate spreadsheets, write your own functions and procedures, and customize menus and toolbars. You'll discover Excel Objects, including workbooks, range objects, graphics, and PivotTables®. Plus, you'll learn how to chart data from databases and other information sources. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction--building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Includes a companion CD with hands-on practice files.

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(tm) 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.