Looking Ahead

You've reached EOF. This book can't offer you any more advice about using the Excel platform to manage your data. I can hope, though, that you've found the information useful. I've done a core dump here, including in this book everything I've found valuable about using Excel, VBA, DAO, ADO, Access databases, and Access projects to keep track of data.

Excel is a very powerful application, but 'twas not always thus. There was a time when Excel was best thought of as the JV version of 1-2-3. Believe it or not, there was a time that Microsoft was criticized in the personal computer media for not offering a spreadsheet application that supported more than one worksheet per file.

But Microsoft kept improving what had once been known as ...

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