Alexander Michael - Excel 2016 Power Programming with VBA

Excel 2016 Power Programming with VBA

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Michael Alexander is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) and author of several books on advanced business analysis with Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel. He has more than 15 years of experience consulting and developing Microsoft Office solutions. Mike has been named a Microsoft MVP for his ongoing contributions to the Excel community. In his spare time, he runs a free tutorial site, www.datapigtechnologies.com , where he shares Excel and Access tips.

Dick Kusleika has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP for 12 consecutive years and has been working with Microsoft Office for more than 20. Dick develops Access- and Excel-based solutions for his clients and has conducted training seminars on Office products in the United States and Australia. Dick also writes a popular Excel-related blog at www.dailydoseofexcel.com .

Niek Otten lives in the Netherlands. He started in data processing in 1967 in an insurance company. He ran into Visicalc in 1980 and has been addicted to spreadsheets ever since. His first encounter with Excel (version 1!) was in 1985 on a Macintosh. Since 2005, Niek has been self-employed reviewing books, writing articles, and developing Excel-related software, such as a high-performance actuarial add-in.

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For most of us, the path to Excel VBA programming starts with the need to perform some task that cant be done with the standard tools in Excel. That task is different for each of us. Maybe that task is to automatically create separate workbooks for all the rows in a dataset. Maybe that task is to automate the emailing of dozens of reports. Whatever that task is for you, you can bet that someone has started their own journey into Excel VBA with the same need.

The beautiful thing about Excel VBA is that you dont have to be an expert to start solving problems with it. You can learn just enough to solve a particular problem, or you can go further and discover ways to handle all kinds of automation scenarios.

Whatever your goals may be, Excel 2016 Power Programming with VBA will help you harness the power of the VBA language to automate tasks, work smarter, and be more productive.

This book focuses on Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the programming language built into Excel (and other applications that make up Microsoft Office). More specifically, it shows you how to write programs that automate various tasks in Excel. This book covers everything from recording simple macros through creating sophisticated user-oriented applications and utilities.

You can approach this book in any way that you please. You can read it from cover to cover, or you can skip around, picking up useful tidbits here and there. VBA programming is often a task-oriented endeavor. So if youre faced with a challenging task, you might try the index first to see where the book might specifically address your problem.

This book does not cover Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO), a technology that uses Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C#. VSTO can also be used to control Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.

As you may know, Excel 2016 is available for other platforms. For example, you can use Microsofts Excel Web App in your browser and even iPads and tablets. These versions do not support VBA. In other words, this book is for the desktop version of Excel 2016 for Windows.