Product DescriptionWord 2000 is an important part of the Office 2000 program suite, and will be available in the Premium, Professional, Standard and Small Business editions of Office 2000. Word has traditionally been the Office suite word processor program par excellence. It still remains that way, but with Office 2000 there is a strong emphasis on between-application automation, ease of use, and the smart new bells and whistles that 2000 brings.Using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), the user can create their own programs in what is essentially a subset of the Visual Basic programming language. This is neat because it allows you to automate a lot of the word processing tasks performed daily - one press of a button can link Excel spreadsheets into Word documents; prepare chapters for layout at Wrox Press, etc.
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Rating: - Complete Study Of Using VBA Inside MS Word
This book helps you transform Word into a database platform! It was the book that helped me write and distribute a patient database (electronic medical record, or "EMR") using fancy VBA techniques. I highly recommend it- there's no other book that comes close to the comprehensive nature of the author's writing.
Rating: - Wrox's Worst
This book is curious because it's too simple for an experienced programmer and it makes too many assumptions for a beginner. For those in between there are a few things worth looking at in the book, but by and large it's a waste of money. There's almost 300 pages of material that comes packaged with VBA--it's the entire Word object model, accessible through the Object Browser. Why did Mackenzie include this? Perhaps because a 270 book on Word VBA doesn't look nearly as impressive as a 600 page book ... Read More
Rating: - Good as a Word VBA Primer
I like this book, but it shouldn't pretend to be one designed for experienced VB programmers. The early chapters look like they are taken straight out of an "Introduction to Visual Basic 6" type book. The back half of the book is a listing of the Word Object model. The best parts are in the middle which show how use Word with an Access database among other things. There's no examples of using Word with a SQL 7.0 database (focus is on Access). The book needs to talk about the pros and cons of ... Read More
Rating: - Big Disappointment
For the first time I am disappointed in a WROX programming book.
The book description states it is for the "experienced developer." Which I could live with but why take 4 chapters to cover the programming fundamentals and only 1 chapter for Word fundamentals. The book was confusing in it's description of the template hierarchy; it didn't cover the ThisDocument property at all; blew through the confusing VB Editor manipulation; and then printed the Object Model in GREAT detail. ... Read More
Rating: - Why not just use help?
For the first time I am disappointed in a WROX programming book.
The book description states it is for the "experienced developer." Which I could live with but why take 4 chapters to cover the programming fundamentals and only 1 chapter for Word fundamentals. The book was confusing in it's description of the template heirarchy; it didn't cover the ThisDocument property at all; blew through the confusing VB Editor manipulation; and then printed the Object Model in GREAT detail. ... Read More
- Complete Study Of Using VBA Inside MS Word
- Wrox's Worst
- Big Disappointment
