Developing Solutions with Office 2000 Components and VBA

The Professional's Guide to Developing Custom Solutions with Office 2000!

• Develop custom applications with Office 2000
• Exploit the power of the VBA language
• Leverage the power of intranets and the Internet

Create custom business solutions with Office 2000 and watch your productivity soar.

Built right into the Microsoft Office applications on your desktop are more than 600 powerful software components and a full featured programming language, Visual Basic for Applications. You can use these tools to create custom applications to streamline your workflow and boost efficiency.

The six main Office applications-Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, FrontPage, and Outlook—all work on the object model. With this step-by-step guide, you'll quickly master the paradigm and get down to building the exact software that suits your needs. Working hands-on from the very start, you'll be building real applications and mastering real skills, such as:

• Creating custom documents, charts, and reports
• Designing customized visual interfaces
• Controlling data access and managing security
• Creating and publishing Web content
• Automating e-mail tasks

You will work easily within the familiar Office framework to develop sophisticated business solutions with these simple, widely available tools.

The Professional's Guide to Developing Custom Solutions with Office 2000!

• Develop custom applications with Office 2000
• Exploit the power of the VBA language
• Leverage the power of intranets and the Internet

Create custom business solutions with Office 2000 and watch your productivity soar.

Built right into the Microsoft Office applications on your desktop are more than 600 powerful software components and a full featured programming language, Visual Basic for Applications. You can use these tools to create custom applications to streamline your workflow and boost efficiency.

The six main Office applications-Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, FrontPage, and Outlook—all work on the object model. With this step-by-step guide, you'll quickly master the paradigm and get down to building the exact software that suits your needs. Working hands-on from the very start, you'll be building real applications and mastering real skills, such as:

• Creating custom documents, charts, and reports
• Designing customized visual interfaces
• Controlling data access and managing security
• Creating and publishing Web content
• Automating e-mail tasks

You will work easily within the familiar Office framework to develop sophisticated business solutions with these simple, widely available tools.

Peter G. Aitken has written more than 25 books on computer-related topics with a special focus on programming. His consulting firm delivers custom Office and Visual Basic solutions to businesses, government, and universities. He is also a contributing editor at Visual Developer magazine, where he writes a popular column on Visual Basic development.