Office® XP Development with VBA

Part Three: The VBA Language

You have seen a lot of the VBA language used in the previous chapters, and you probably have a good idea how certain parts of it work. To be an efficient Office developer, however, you need to have a good command of all the language elements. VBA is a powerful and flexible tool, and like all tools, you need to learn how to use it properly if you are to get the best results.

This section contains eight chapters. The first six deal with the fundamental language elements: storing data, controlling program execution, making decisions, manipulating text and number data, working with dates and times, and accessing disk files. These topics are the “meat and potatoes” of VBA programming, and while there is a good amount ...