Office® XP Development with VBA

Summing Up

Today's businesses rely on accurate data to make decisions that affect productivity. However, having the data may not be enough—the data needs to be in a form that can easily be understood. This is most often a chart of some kind, and Office's many chart making capabilities are well suited to almost any task. By automatically retrieving the latest data from a database table and displaying it as charts in three different ways, the application developed in this chapter will help the client make the necessary decisions. It should be noted that Office provides other methods by which essentially the same result could be obtained. That's a mark of the flexibility of the Office-development environment.