Office® XP Development with VBA

Preface

When most people think of Microsoft Office, they think of a powerful set of office applications—Word for word processing, Excel for spreadsheets, Access for databases, and so on. There is, however, much more to Office than that. Hidden behind the applications programs is a powerful set of development tools that can be used to create sophisticated custom solutions to address specific needs. The foundation of these development capabilities is the Office object model, a rich set of programmable objects, sometimes referred to as software components. These components provide the functionality of the individual applications that make up Office and are also available for customized programming. When combined with the powerful Visual Basic for ...