Microsoft Excel/Visual Basic Programmer's Guide

Book excerpt: With the Microsoft Excel/Visual Basic for Windows 95 Programmer's Guide, you'll learn to create concise, lean, and efficient code with the powerful programming language used in Microsoft Excel. This book will teach you how to become more productive with Visual Basic for Applications by customizing and adapting tools for your specific needs - you'll learn how you can create custom commands, menus, dialog boxes, messages, and buttons, as well as display custom online help for all of these items. Microsoft Excel/Visual Basic for Windows 95 Programmer's Guide runs quickly through the basics and then goes on to cover such topics as working with objects, optimizing for size and speed, debugging, communicating with other applications, accessing external data, and creating add-ins. The four appendixes cover topics that include writing code for international use, switching from the old Microsoft Excel macro language, and customizing toolbars. Written by members of the Microsoft Excel team, Microsoft Excel/Visual Basic for Windows 95 Programmer's Guide contains important information that only those intimately involved with the product can impart. If you're already practiced in recording and running macros in Microsoft Excel and want to move to more advanced programming, Microsoft Excel/Visual Basic for Windows 95 Programmer's Guide is the perfect guide for you.