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VBA and Macros: Microsoft Excel 2010
AUTOMATE REPORTS BUILD FUNCTIONS VISUALIZE DATA WRITE FAST, RELIABLE SCRIPTS Microsoft Excel 2010 VBA AND SAVE TIME AND SUPERCHARGE EXCEL 2010 WITH VBA AND MACROS! Use Excel 2010 VBA and macros to automate virtually any routine task, and save yourself hours, days, maybe even weeks. Then learn how to make Excel do things you thought were simply impossible! This book reveals scripting techniques you won’t find anywhere else and shows you how to create automated reports that are amazingly powerful and useful. It helps you instantly visualize information so you can understand and act on it. It also shows you how to capture data from anywhere and use it anywhere, and helps you automate Excel 2010’s most powerful new features. Learning advanced Excel scripting has never been easier. You’ll find simple, step-by-step instructions, real-world examples and case studies, and 50 workbooks packed with bonus examples, macros, and solutions, straight from MrExcel. • Work efficiently with ranges, cells, and R1C1-style formulas • Build super-fast applications with arrays • Customize the Excel 2010 Ribbon to run your macros • Write Excel 2010 VBA code that works on older versions of Excel • Create custom dialog boxes to collect information from your users • Use error handling to make your VBA scripts more resilient • Use Web queries to import data from virtually any online source • Master advanced techniques such as classes and collections • Use Excel VBA to control other Office programs…even control Windows itself, via the Windows API • Create add-ins to share or sell your programs About MrExcel Every book in the MrExcel Library pinpoints a specific set of crucial Excel tasks and presents focused skills and examples for performing them rapidly and effectively. Selected by Bill Jelen, Microsoft Excel MVP and mastermind behind the leading Excel solutions website MrExcel.com, these books will • Dramatically increase your productivity―saving you 50 hours a year or more • Present proven, creative strategies for solving real-world problems • Show you how to get great results, no matter how much data you have • Help you avoid critical mistakes that even experienced users make
656 pages, Paperback
First published June 7, 2010
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Bill Jelen
138 books79 followersBill Jelen is the host of MrExcel.com and the author of 50 books about Microsoft Excel including Pivot Table Data Crunching, Excel Gurus Gone Wild, and Guerrilla Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel. He writes monthly Excel columns for Strategic Finance magazine.
He has been awarded the MVP in Excel for 10 years by Microsoft.
He has made over 60 guest appearances on TV’s Call for Help with Leo Laporte and was voted guest of the year on the Computer America radio show.
His has produced over 2000 episodes of his daily video podcast Learn Excel from MrExcel.
Before founding MrExcel.com in 1998, Jelen spent twelve years “in the trenches”, as a financial
analyst for the accounting, finance, marketing, and operations departments of a publicly held company. Since then, his company automates Excel reports for hundreds of clients around the world. The website answers over 30,000 questions a year – for free – for
readers all over the world.
He has been awarded the MVP in Excel for 10 years by Microsoft.
He has made over 60 guest appearances on TV’s Call for Help with Leo Laporte and was voted guest of the year on the Computer America radio show.
His has produced over 2000 episodes of his daily video podcast Learn Excel from MrExcel.
Before founding MrExcel.com in 1998, Jelen spent twelve years “in the trenches”, as a financial
analyst for the accounting, finance, marketing, and operations departments of a publicly held company. Since then, his company automates Excel reports for hundreds of clients around the world. The website answers over 30,000 questions a year – for free – for
readers all over the world.
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May 30, 2014
I have mixed feelings about "VBA and Macros". Yes, the code usually works and typing it in can be quite instructive. It is very comprehensive and can be a great reference, since it includes complete tables of constants and methods for a lot of VBA functionality.
However, I take some issue with the quality of the content and how the book was structured. There was a noticeable lack of logical progression in the chapters: for example, I will readily admit I am new at VBA, but I failed to understand why a core process like error handling is placed after a more niche utility like API calls.
Moreover, much of the content is just lazily copy/pasted tables or code snippets, some of them taken directly from readers who have contributed to the MrExcel forums. Their contributions are acknowledged, of course, but there is no attempt at reformatting them or integrating them into any sort of pedagogical structure. It literally is just "here is a cool thing you can do with VBA" *insert code*. Much of what is in this book, a reader could feasibly just search for on the internet as he/she went along and get pretty much the same information.
I will also say I found the editing really lazy. There is too much fluff. Many of the chapters include a number of veiled, unnecessary consultancy plugs and insufferably boring eighties war stories from when Bill was mastering Lotus 1-2-3 and wrestling with COBOL formatting issues. This adds nothing of value for the vast majority of readers and no self-respecting editor would have left it in.
After going back and forth on it for a while, I ended up with a rating of three stars for this book, mostly due to its cheap price and utility value as a reference. Having read a number of VBA books now, I feel there is an obvious difference between the ones that are actually instructing the reader versus the ones that are just glorified code dumps. This one falls somewhere in-between, really too much in the latter direction than I would have liked to see.
However, I take some issue with the quality of the content and how the book was structured. There was a noticeable lack of logical progression in the chapters: for example, I will readily admit I am new at VBA, but I failed to understand why a core process like error handling is placed after a more niche utility like API calls.
Moreover, much of the content is just lazily copy/pasted tables or code snippets, some of them taken directly from readers who have contributed to the MrExcel forums. Their contributions are acknowledged, of course, but there is no attempt at reformatting them or integrating them into any sort of pedagogical structure. It literally is just "here is a cool thing you can do with VBA" *insert code*. Much of what is in this book, a reader could feasibly just search for on the internet as he/she went along and get pretty much the same information.
I will also say I found the editing really lazy. There is too much fluff. Many of the chapters include a number of veiled, unnecessary consultancy plugs and insufferably boring eighties war stories from when Bill was mastering Lotus 1-2-3 and wrestling with COBOL formatting issues. This adds nothing of value for the vast majority of readers and no self-respecting editor would have left it in.
After going back and forth on it for a while, I ended up with a rating of three stars for this book, mostly due to its cheap price and utility value as a reference. Having read a number of VBA books now, I feel there is an obvious difference between the ones that are actually instructing the reader versus the ones that are just glorified code dumps. This one falls somewhere in-between, really too much in the latter direction than I would have liked to see.
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March 7, 2018A good book to come back to after I had learned VBA. I was a beginner when I purchased this book and it wasn't what I expected. Helpful for a VBA programmer with a bit of experience, but less so for those who had absolutely no programming experience.
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