What is this book about? VBA is the programming language for the Microsoft Office suite and many other applications. VBA gives you complete control of Excel, allowing you to do anything from automating Excel tasks to developing full applications, using Excel as the development environment. Excel 2002 is an important upgrade to the Office suite spreadsheet program. It shows Microsoft's commitment to moving Office to be a web-enabled productivity tool, a rich client for working with web-based data, with new features such as SmartTags and XML support. Based on the successful content and format of Excel 2000 VBA Programmer's Reference, this new edition has been fully updated for Excel 2002. The authors are all Excel MVPs, involved daily in supporting the Excel VBA programmer community. What does this book cover? The first part of the book introduces Excel and VBA, including a VBA primer. The second part offers thematic, succinct, and practical discussions of the features available to Excel VBA programmers, with real-world examples answering frequently asked questions. The third and final part is a complete reference to the Excel, VBE, and Common Office Object Models. Here are just a few of the things you'll learn in this edition: The entire Excel Object Model and the Common Office Object Model Working with PivotTables Accessing and manipulating data sources from Excel with ADO Programming the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) New features in Excel 2002, SmartTags, XML, and the Web Expanded references for Excel versions 97, 2000, and 2002 Who is this book for? This book not only caters for beginner- and intermediate-level programmers with its introductory coverage of VBA and Excel, but also provides advanced information for experienced Excel developers in later chapters and the reference.

Designed to provide non-developers with a hands-on guide to both Excel VBA and XML, this book gives users a wide range of VBA coverage including how to write subroutines and functions from scratch, manipulate files and folders with VBA statements, manage date with arrays and collections, and much more. Includes CD.

This Quick Reference will quickly get you up to speed with Excel's new features, whether you're a novice user or an expert. You'll master how to easily publish interactive Web pages that include spreadsheets and tables. You'll learn how to use new Smart Tags to access real-time data from the Web for your Excel documents. You will be able to use Excel's latest speech recognition capabilities to "talk to your spreadsheets," and much, much more!

Office 2002 is the next version (after Office 2000) of Microsoft's program suite that includes Word, Access, Outlook and Excel. The aim of 2002 is to take advantage of Office's core position within most business systems and make it the interface to business processes and web services. One of the most significant advances is the XML capability that has been added to Access and Excel, with the latter becoming the key to future Web Service integration and an essential part of any Office developer's skill set. -- Written by two active and popular members of the Excel community -- Includes coverage of all the new features including smart tags, pivot tables, and web components -- Examines all the new XML capabilities that 2002 brings to the Excel world

Guide to using the latest edition of the popular Excel spreadsheet program for Office XP from tips on using basic features to easy to understand explanations of advanced functions. By inputting or importing data, analyses for financial, statistical, engineering, or, other professional functions can be made.

Teach yourself how to use Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) to take command of Microsoft Excel Version 2002. Choose your own best starting point in this self-paced guide to learn how to automate spreadsheets, write your own functions and procedures, customize menus and toolbars, and more. Easy-to-follow lessons with real-world scenarios and examples show you exactly how to maximize the built-in programming power in Microsoft Excel 2002. Numerous screenshots and a CD full of practice files help you master step-by-step programming procedures. Find out how to create custom solutions with Microsoft Excel and this book—then keep it nearby as an ongoing desktop reference to VBA functions and features. Learn at your own pace how to: Use macros to automate simple and complex tasks Manipulate workbooks and worksheets Explore range objects Work with graphical objects Build and manipulate PivotTable® objects Create loops and conditional statements with Visual Basic Use dialog box controls on worksheets Create and use custom functions and handle macro errors Create custom toolbar buttons, menu commands, command buttons, event handlers, and dialog boxes A Note Regarding the CD or DVD The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to [email protected].

Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series, Microsoft Excel 2002 Introductory Concepts and Techniques provides step-by-step instructions accompanied by full-color screen shots, helping students learn basic Excel 2002 skills quickly and easily.

Microsoft Excel sets the standard for spreadsheet programs. Its versatility and functionality have made it the most popular spreadsheet program for Windows. It boasts an impressive set of tools to create, analyze, and share spreadsheets. With Excel 2002, Microsoft has added new features such as context-sensitive smart tags, new task panes, and Document Recovery to this popular product. Excel's compatibility with other Office 2002 products and its improved collaboration and Web integration features, including the ability to add data from Web sources, make it the perfect tool for sharing information on the Internet or intranets. Excel 2002 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide offers a friendly, gentle tour through all the features of Excel 2002. Starting with worksheet basics, readers will learn to edit, use functions, format cells, and add graphic objects. Then this Visual QuickStart Guide moves on to charts, printing, databases, Web publishing, and advanced techniques in Excel. This visual guide can be used as a task-based reference or as a tutorial.

Written especially for advanced beginners and intermediate users, this book offers quick fixes for anyone bedeviled by faulty formulas, failed formatting, printer purgatory, and other perplexing Excel problems Offers three types of fixes: Escape in Under 30 Seconds, Escape in Under Two Minutes, and More Elaborate Escapes-over 400 solutions in all Topics covered include formula fixes, formatting fixes, data and layout fixes for Excel charts, PivotTable fixes, managing complexity in very large spreadsheets, fixing broken procedure functions, and more Includes preventive measures and best practices that teach users how to avoid problems in the future Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.