Customer Reviews:
 Wonderful Training Manual September 14, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a professional trainer this is a book I highly recommend to delegates. Not only covers the Excel specific parts of VBA but also covers the general principles and good practice techniques of programming.Good examples, clear explanations, a good book to support anyone learning VBA.
Not impenetrable - Just ram-packed May 28, 2004
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Well, other reviewers have said it's a hard book to get to grips with. Whilst this is probably true if you have little/no programming experience at all, for those of us who do and who dont want to wade through massive chapters on "what is a variable" again, this book is a godsend. With a background in OO languages, I found I could just pick this book up, and get coding pretty much straight away. It is concise, but that's a good thing i think, and is generally par for the course with O'Reilly who do tend to target the experienced coder.
 Rather inscrutable April 24, 2003
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
I was attracted by the author's 'terse' style and comprehensive approach. The concept of breaking VBA down into its core components and laying these out for the reader is great. [ie as compared to going through standard basic VBA apps]. In practice though I found this rather unfathomable. I've used this book during my [rather painful] VBA initiation period and found it ranging from almost impossible to understand [at the start] to potentially helpful and quite comprehensive for those aspects that I've not seen covered elsewhere [4 months later]. I do think it promises a lot but because its objective is to really delve into how vba works, it doesn't quite bridge the gap between vba environment and applications. I constantly refer to it but find it difficult to extract much detailed information, although i am finding more and more 'titbits' which make sense. I think one day it will all open up and reveal its treasures to me, but on the other hand, it may never make much sense. In the meantime, I've had to buy another VBA book which focuses more on the apps side.
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