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Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Programming Inside Out | 
 enlarge | Authors: Curtis Frye, Wayne S. Freeze, Felicia K. Buckingham
Brand: Little
Category: Book
List Price: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 299333
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 624
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.6
MPN: 0-7356-1985-9
ISBN: 0735619859
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.54
UPC: 790145198594
EAN: 9780735619852
ASIN: 0735619859
Publication Date: March 10, 2004
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OFFICE EXCEL 2003 PROG INSIDE OUT
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Not for beginners, not for any one December 26, 2008
I expected that a book published by the company who developed the application would, to a great extent, be the definitive source of information. Personally I learned more from the Help resource in Excel than this book. In particular, most books on programming begin by describing the basic types/structures/fundamentals then moving into more and more detail all the while providing insightful and informative examples, some of which are built upon through out the text.
Now I have programmed in many different languages before and understand the relative similarities (after all, aside from linguistics/semantics most languages are fundamentally the same), yet there was no substantive explanation regarding running the minimalist examples that were given. Moreover, how about providing some worthwhile examples that really illustrate programming Excel and making it work for you.
All-in-all this text was VERY disappointing and the only reason for two stars is that I got the book for free. If it were not for this fact, I would have given in one star. For anyone out there interested in Excel programming, please steer clear of this text and I wish I could direct you to something worthwhile but this was my first so we are all out of luck. Cheers!
 Defective Index Destroys Any Value June 5, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I use a book like this mainly for reference on specific points. The index is so defective, however, that the book is almost entirely worthless. (Try looking up "Shared Workspace task pane", for example)
where is the errata for this book? March 17, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I agree with the masses, not such a good book. Does anyone know where the errata is located at for this book?
 A Nice Book for Beginners..... August 7, 2005
I have recently been turned on to Visual Basic due to my position in an Engineering Firm. We deal with a ton of calculations based on current projects. This book has helped tremendously in getting a foothold of the begining stages of Excels Visual Basic coding.
Some of the other reviewers have not been happy with this book and claim it to be useless. I do not find that to be true. If you are an advanced user/developer of excel programing then there ARE many books that will help more than this book, but if you have never done any coding in Excel, then this book is a really good start. Hey, where can you find a good intro book of this caliber, used, for less than $5.00?
This book does have it's down falls. It is a bit difficult to follow sometimes in that they don't really give more detailed explainations of how things go together but if you can read the first few chapters and still understand then you should have no problems working through this down fall.
This book does have a large amount of information in it. It covers all the topics that a beginning coder would need. They discuss in each chapter what the topis is for and how it works. The layout of this book is a nice one too. I have 'Inside Out' books on 'MS Project & Outlook'. These are very nice as well and the main reason I went with this book on Excel. I do not feel I went wrong here at all and would recommend this book to anyone wanting to get into Excel Programming.
In Summary, this is a good book for the price. You should find it helpful while on your path to Excel programming.
PLEASE Look for another book! October 1, 2004
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book isn't worth your time or money. I certainly wasted mine on it. The Author is so caught up in his ability to write code that he forgot what the book is about. No explanations of the code are offered so that you can follow his train of thought. I think he is off in the Delta Quadrant somewhere. The index is next to useless. Try to find 'comments' and you are directed to a page that has the word 'comments' on it but explains nothing regarding adding COMMENTS to your code. Most of his examples don't even work outside his tiny environment - I couldn't make any of them work in my Excel code. Forget troubleshooting your code! His code is so perfect he obviously didn't fell the need to write anything that helps debug your code. The book also lacks an appendix with a list of functions for easy reference. If you want a function your going to spend a huge amount of time flipping through pages. DON'T BUY!
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