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 Fundamentals to Advanced Excel VBA - a great book October 9, 2007
Keith Sinders (Indianapolis, IN)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great book. I've been programming in Excel VBA since about 1997. I've never had a formal class on writing Visual Basic or VBA code so I've always scratched through on my own flipping back and forth through Visual Basic books and searching through the index like crazy to find out what I needed. Programming in VBA started out as a hobby for me. Most books just state Visual Basic info and don't go into much detail. Walkenbach does a great job, especially for beginners that already have a little bit of experience with VBA. He starts out with the fundamentals and builds on them and gives plenty of example code. This helps give the reader a good grasp of how Excel's VBA environment truly works and it totally changed my perspective as far as how I program. Visual Basic books don't specifically target on Excel like this book does and VB is not necessarily exactly the same as VBA.
If you're just starting to learn VBA for Excel, then this book is worth every penny you pay and more. I have about 4 other books on VBA and I'd trade about all of them in for this one book. I definitely recommend reading about turning the automatic updating off and I think most beginners will find Chapter 11 regarding working with ranges EXTREMELY useful, especially the portion about transferring the data to a variant array for computation then back to the range for much faster macro speeds.
If you are starting out in Excel VBA, I definitely recommend this be the first book that you read.
 Jelen & Walkenbach September 29, 2007
Ayman Mikhail (San Diego, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book plus Bill Jelen's "VBA and Macros for Microsoft Excel (Business Solutions)" makes for a complete volume on this subject. Walkenbach's book alone is not enough. Take it to the next level with Bullen/Bovey/Green's "Professional Excel Development."
Best Excel 2003 book July 3, 2007
A. Parent (USA)
Best ever book on Excel 2003. Mr. Walkenbach clearly is THE guru of Excel. Until I wanted to learn VBA, I never paid much attention to Excel books. Since then I've done a lot of reading and this is by far the best, not just about VBA, but all aspects of Excel. Even reading about things I thought I knew a lot about was helpful and revealing. His writing is clear, witty, simple and to the point. I hold the user manual for cpm's SuperCalc as the gold standard of software manual clarity - even though this is ten times bigger, it's just as good. Well done. Highly recommended - thank you Mr. Walkenbach.
Utterly thorough reference guide May 17, 2007
JC Carlisle (RTP, North Carolina)
Thorough and clear reference guide. Highly recommended for anyone using (or wanting to use) VBA to automate or "slick-up" excel applications.
Great Book February 10, 2007
Rodrigo Stefoni (Santiago, Chile)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Excelent book to learn the capabilities of Excel VBA. I learnt VBA by viewing online examples and worked my way up to developing a small purchase system, which connects to databases. This book has taught me with good examples a way to better organize my code, and find new ways to do certain tasks.
I would definitely recomend this book to begginers and intermediate users to learn in a clean and simple way. I dont consider myself and advanced user, so don't know what kind of books these people use, but I am sure they would give it a thumbs up.
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