Chapter 4. Worksheet Design

There is a tremendous amount of Excel user interface design that can and should be accomplished using the built-in features of Excel alone, with no VBA required. One of the guiding principles of Excel development is “let Excel be Excel.” Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Excel provides a wide variety of prepackaged, performance-optimized features you can use to build your application's user interface. This chapter examines how you can produce a fully functional user interface with just the features Excel provides for this purpose.

There are two fundamental sections of an Excel worksheet user interface: those designed to be visible to the user and through which the user operates your application, and those designed to ...

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