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-**G
Good book for learning VBA
I am new to Microsoft VBA. To be fair, I've spent years in Unix/Linux environments. I've programmed in Python, Perl, Ruby along with a number of other languages over the years. I was able to pick this book up and quickly identify variable scoping, and other nuances of the VBA language. It gave me enough to jump in and start playing around and writing well-structured code. This combined with some of the "Wise Owl Training" videos on YouTube and I'm up and running.Overall- it's a good book. Within a day or two, it took me through the basics and I'm now at a point where I'm referencing the Microsoft online docs for things that are beyond the scope of the book.VBA isn't as fun as python. Windows desktops aren't as enjoyable for me as a good Linux desktop.... but if you find yourself stranded on a Windows platform and you need to automate... this is a good place to start.
T**R
I have found this book to be a great resource and well worth the purchase price
I am a part time programmer. It is not my primary job, but I have been programming in VBA on and off for decades and I would probably rate myself in the intermediate skill level for VBA and at the expert level for Excel. I have found this book to be a great resource and well worth the purchase price, particularly if you currently possess an up to date VBA reference book.This book provides much better information than the object explorer in the MS VBE or than is available in the on-line help provided by MicroSoft. It also provides great information that is hard to find in Google or in video tutorials. Between this book, the built-in help provided by Microsoft and the object explorer in VBE, on-line searches, and free and pay video webinars, you should have most of the information you need to write pretty good applications and automated spreadsheets.Before I purchased this book, I was concerned because some experienced programmers were saying it was not detailed enough. I have not found that to be the case. The information I get from this book has been valuable in speeding my ability to figure out which objects to use in my code.
D**N
OK, some help
I've done a lot of messing around over the years with Excel and Access, formulas, forms, queries --- you may say intermidiate developer in some ways,l beginner in others ---- clueless about writing code, desperate to find something clear to get started with it, because my Access development now needs VBA and SQL. MANY computer preofessionals are not great communicators, so many books by such people just fail to get through to me. Richard Mansfield BEGINS AT THE BEGINNING, CLEARLY EXPLAINGING THE TERMINOLOGY ---- instead of, as many authors do, just starting to to throw around the lingo, so that the beginner can only throw up his/her hands and say "what the heck does that word mean exactly? Whis is a "macro", and how is it different from a "subroutine", a "procedure"? I suspect this book is goodt for a wide rage of audiences, For example, easier to follow than "Access 2016 Bible", and other MS Office books. However, I'm still having some trouble ith book trying to fathom the Word developer and VBA interfaces, which seem hugely non-intuitive and not user-friendly. This book gives lots of step-by-step, but is not always perfectly clear to me. For example, you write new code in the code editor --- now what? Thre is nothing in the softwware or in the book that says "save", or how to designate where you want to save it. --- how exactly to save it to the ".dotm" templalte? It sort-of ananswers this on page 26, but not very explicitly. So you just finish typing and leave the application and it's saved --- zero confirmation? Like Access? This book is better than most about writing too many words, but it still could be a little more concise.
K**T
All-encompassing book for VBA
This book is a full breakdown of all of the items that you need to make VBA work at a high level. Absolutely the best out there.
W**D
So many words!
This may turn out to be a good purchase, but so far I feel that I am wading through lots of pages waiting to get to something succinct that I can apply to my project rather than just know and understand. My reaction may be because I have just finished "Learn VB 2015 in 24 hours" which was very goal oriented and step by step. Mastering VBA seems like a paid by the word effort.
F**K
Great book for learning the details of VBA for Office 2016
Very comprehensive book for learning VBA for Office 2016 with Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook covered in excruciating detail. I don't suggest this book for learning the basics of VBA - for that, I recommend VBA for Dummies. This book, on the other hand, goes deeply into each subject.
D**D
Good book
Answered questions other books did’t
B**T
A necessary resource
If you are tackling your first VBA project, this book will be useful. It is NOT the be-all and end-all compendium of getting things done with VBA - I wish there was such a thing - but it provides guidance. You will need Microsoft's documentation - even though it sucks. It is also useful to Google your problems. Others have encountered the same idiosyncrasies, and you can find answers on-line. With the three resources (Mansfield, Microsoft and Google), I've been able to write a decent (imho) utility.
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