Absolute Beginner's Guide to VBA (Absolute Beginner's Guides)

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Beginner's Guide? (0/0 people found this helpful)

Although I have experience of programming I found this book far too hard to justify the title of Absolute Beginner's Guide . . It is well written but someone may buy this book who is an absolute beginner and be put off attempting to learn VBA. I know I was. Even if the book is aimed at the novice programmer it has much to discourage that learner. The would be learner of VBA would be better off using the excellent Help option in the VBA editor that any Excel user can access from the program and study the examples. I'll be more wary in future of an books that have in their title 'Absolute Beginners Guide'

Here is a quote from page 25: 'If you have a VBA statement that needs to call a procedure in another project, you first need to set up a reference (italics) to the project. Doing this gives you access to all the project's procedures. The following steps . . . ' There are over 300 pages in the book.

But, for anyone who is using a programing language and would like to learn VBA the book is very good. I believe that the book should be expanded in the earlier chapters to enable the learner to master recording macros before being lead into deeper waters.

Spot On (3/5 people found this helpful)

Excellent book, unlike most VBA books this covers all aspects of Office integration.

A great books for beginners, and an excellent reference for others.

Don't be put off by the "Absolute Beginners's" title, it's a great book for experienced users too.

Fantastic for the Beginner (4/4 people found this helpful)

Although I'm by no means a programming novice, I was interested in learning more about VBA, particularily in gaining a solid understanding of the basics. This book provides a fantastic, solid basis from which to start to learn VBA.

The best bits?
+ I love learning by studying examples and this book has plenty, with great explainations backing them up.
+ From the 3 or 4 VBA books I now have, this book is unique in that it contains individual chapters about how to use VBA in all the office applications although not to any great detail.

Why not 5 stars?
+ Detail. This book is a great starting point for leaning VBA but no more than that.

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