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Worksheets

1. Sort all sheets
2. Remove blank worksheets from Current workbook
3. Color all Sheet Tabs
4. Remove color from all sheet tabs
5. Protect all worksheets
6. Remove Password (Unprotect) all worksheets
7. Insert ‘n’ number of Blank Worksheets

Range

1. Color a range based on its percentage value

Select

1. Invert the Selection

Number


Rows/Columns

1. Delete Blank Rows
2. Remove Empty Columns

Text

1. Change Case (Upper, Lower, Proper, Sentence and Toggle)
   
2. Remove Extra Spaces (Left, Right, Both sides and from Inside)

Format

1. Partly Background Color a Cell (Coloring only a portion of Cell)

Form

1. Resize Form during Run-Time

Event Macro

1. Example of Worksheet_Change Event Macro

Miscellaneous

1. Access Internet Explorer (Search Engine Example)
2. Change Image Location
3. Copy Excel Worksheets to MS Word

View VBA Macro Code Here

This macro will delete all event macros, sub routines and user defined functions from Active workbook. This requires reference to “Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Extensibility 5.3″ and trusted access to VBA project model.(Developer –> Macro security –> Trust access to VBA project model).

View VBA Macro Code Here

Macro #1: Make Workbook unacceptable to any changes.
Pre-requisite: Event Programming, VBA and Excel
Logic: Use of Workbook’s Saved property and Workbook’s BeforeSave event. As soon as excel encounter any changes, it changes Saved property value to FALSE so when you attempt to save the workbook, excel checks this property value and save the workbook, if it founds to be FALSE but if it is TRUE, then it ignores the operation.
Now we use BeforeSave event and turn this property value to TRUE everytime BeforeSave event fired. So this makes workbook immune to any changes.
Code:
‘PLACE THIS CODE IN THISWORKBOOK, NOT IN SHEETS OR MODULE
Private Sub Workbook_BeforeSave(ByVal SaveAsUI As Boolean, Cancel As Boolean)
‘CHEATING APPLICATION BY FORCING SAVED PROPERTY TO BE TRUE
    ThisWorkbook.Saved = True
End Sub

Macro #2. Force changes to be saved in such workbooks (as mentioned above).
Pre-requisite: Event Programming, VBA and Excel
Logic: Disable Events, Save the workbook and then enable events again. Yes, it is that simple and here is its code.
Code:
 Sub ForceSave()
    On Error Resume Next
‘THIS WILL DISABLE ALL EVENTS INCLUDING Workbook_BeforeSave.
    Application.EnableEvents = False
‘SAVE THE WORKBOOK
    ActiveWorkbook.Save
‘ENABLE THE EVENTS AGAIN
    Application.EnableEvents = True
    On Error GoTo 0
End Sub

Note: You fill find workbooks with Macro#1 generally VBE password protected, in such case if you want to use Macro#2, either write it in Personal workbook and assign a shortcut key or assign it to a toolbar button.

Dear All, Any one know the way how to embed a flash project into Excel ?

1. Select the sheet in which you want to embed the flash project.

2. Go to View -> Toolbars -> Control Toolbox and click on the icon (More Controls in the last) which looks like a little hammer.

3. Select “Shockwave Flash Object” from the alphabetical list.

4. Now your cursor has been reformed into the plus shape, this allows you to create a rectangle shape on the sheet to make space for your Flash Object.

5. Right click on the cross-shaped rectangle box object and click on properties.

6. In the properties box, double click the first option. i.e.Custom

7. Now do the following options as suggested in the “Property Pages” dialog box.
    i.   Provide the Movie URL
    ii.  Check the “Embed Movie” checkbox.
    iii. Check the “Play” checkbox.

8. Click Apply and then Ok.

9. Close the properties box and Control Toolbox.

i)   Select the range (It should be in terms of percentage, else change the following code accordingly.)
ii)  Press Alt+F11.
iii) Paste the following code in Code window.
iv) Run the macro and enjoy.

i) Use REPT function to repeat the pipe symbol, | as displayed in formula box Below.

The VLOOKUP function returns a value of a cell from one of the table columns. The VLOOKUP function is an extension of the LOOKUP function.
The letter V at the beginning of the function is an abbreviation for vertical. VLOOKUP searches for a value in the leftmost column of a table and then returns a value in the same row from a column you specify in the table.

i) Searching a value

ii) Searching and Returning a value

1.Lookup_value: The value for which the calculation is made or the value to be searched in first column of Table_array.
2. Table_array: The range of data where lookup_value is to be searched and the range containing the result.
3. Col_Index_num: Column number of result column. This can be from 1 to total number of columns in Table_array.
4. Range_lookup: This can be True(1) or False(0) only as you need exact match or approximate match respectively.

Description: This VBA Macro will remove empty columns from the active worksheet.
View VBA Macro Code Here
 

Solution: 
1. Press Alt+F11. (To write the macro in Code Editor.)
2. Go to Tools –> References –> Select “Microsoft Internet Controls”.

3. Copy-Paste the code available here.

4. Now, run this macro as desired and whenever required.

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3. Please enable macros when prompted.

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Query / Problem:
Ok, can someone help me out?  I am trying to create formula that is going to round my numbers to x.47 or x.97.
A1=$9.99
B1=75%
C1=A1-B1=$2.49
So what I am trying to do is to take discount from price and if it ends x.49 I would like to round it x.47 and if it ends x.99 I would like to round it to x.97. Does this make sense….so everything between x.51 and x.99 should be rounded to x.97 and everything between x.01 to x.49 should be rounded to x.47. 

Assuming the contents as follows
Column A (Actual Price) – A1 = 9.99
Column B (Discount)      – B1 = 75%
Column C (Sale Price)    – C1 = ‘=A1*(1-B1)‘

The Solution would be
Column D (Tag Price)     – D1 = ‘=FLOOR(C2,1)+IF(CEILING(C2,1)-(C2)<0.5,0.97,0.47)‘

Brief Description: Solution requires use of Event Macros, VBA, Forms, Object Hierarchy. Even if you don’t know refer below to solve such problems in a very easy manner.
As you want to re-size the form whenever value in Cell A1 of Sheet1 changes, you mustuse event macro to achieve this. Since event macros are automatically fired in response to associated events. Following are some examples of excel events for which event macros are already in the MS Excel applications:
      Name of Event                           |             Event Macro
1. Opening of Workbook              |          Workbook_Open()
2. Double click a cell                     |          Worksheet_BeforeDoubleClick
3. Activate a Sheet                        |          Worksheet_Activate()
4. Pivot Table Update                  |           Worksheet_PivotTableUpdate
5. Change Cell Value                     |            Worksheet_SelectionChange
etc etc etc

Since, each event macro is associated with an event, it is also associated with a particular object. Like, if defined then a workbook event macro is associated to the workbook where it is defined. So if you’ve written a workbook event macro in Workbook A then it won’t affect Workbook B. Same for Sheets, pivot tables etc.

Full Solution to the Query:
1. Open the desired Excel file.
2. Go to VBE by pressing Alt+F11.
3. Under Microsoft Excel Objects for this workbook, Double Click on Sheet1 to open it’s code window.
4. Paste the Code Available here in it.

5. Test your Macro by changing the value of Cell A1.

1. The Right Arrow Key
Press the right arrow key several times and notice that right adjacent cell to current active cell will get active.

2. The Down Arrow Key
Press the down arrow key several times and notice that bottom adjacent cell to current active cell will get active.

3. The Left Arrow Key
Press the left arrow key several times and notice that left adjacent cell to current active cell will get active.

4. The Up Arrow Key
Press the up arrow key several times and notice that top adjacent cell to current active cell will get active.

5. The Tab Key
Press the Tab key several times and notice that right adjacent cell to current active cell will get active. The difference between tab and right arrow key is that when you are modifying a cell content, tab will still function in the same way as mentioned but Right arrow key will traverse through character by character in the cell.
Example: 1. Change the value of cell A1 to “Hello Excel”.
2. Select cell A1 and press F2. Now try left and right arrow keys.
3. Now Press Tab.

I hope the difference must be cleared now.

6. The Shift-Tab Key Combination
Press the Shift-Tab key several times and notice that left adjacent cell to current active cell will get active.

7. The Page Down Key
Press the Page Down key several times and notice that cursor or selected cell moves down by one page.

8. The Page Up Key
Press the Page Up key several times and notice that cursor or selected cell moves up by one page.

9. The Ctrl+Home Key Combination
Press the Ctrl+Home key from any selected cell and cursor will move to cell A1 always.

10. The Ctrl+End Key Combination
Press the Ctrl+End Key Combination and notice that cursor or selected cell moves to the last cell (last column and last row of used range).

View VBA Macro Code Here

View VBA Macro Code Here 

Description: A word or sentence is said to be in upper case if its all the letters are in capital letters like this: EXCELITEMS IS BEST COLLECTION OF EXCEL RELATED STUFF.
View VBA Macro Code Here

lower case
 Description: A word or sentence is said to be in lower case if its all the letters are in small letters like this: excelitems is best collection of excel related stuff.
View VBA Macro Code Here

Proper Case 
Description: A word or sentence is said to be in proper case if first letter of each word is in capital letter and rest are in small letters like this: Excelitems Is Best Collection Of Excel Related Stuff.
View VBA Macro Code Here

Sentence case
Description: A sentence is said to be in sentence case if first letter of sentence is in capital letter and rest are in small letters like this: Excelitems is best collection of excel related stuff.
View VBA Macro Code Here

ToGgLe CaSe
Description: A word or sentence is said to be in toggle case if first letter of sentence is in capital letter and next is in small letter then next in capital letter and so on like this: ExCeLiTeMs iS BeSt cOlLeCtIoN Of eXcEl rElAtEd sTuFf.
View VBA Macro Code Here

I have two buttons on column P which called active and deactivate.When I click active it should change color of  that row as green,means that project is active and once that is completed i can deactivate that by changing it to original text color. This is working for raw 1 but when I am dragging it down to make it work for all rows I am not able to do so.Please help me to have that thing changed for each row. 
Link to Problem File

Instead of using buttons a better solution is to include Data Validation (as you’ve used it in other columns) and Worksheet Event Macro (Worksheet_Change). Here is how you can do this:
Data Validation
1. Select Cell P2.
2. Go to Data –> Validation –> Settings.
3. Change Allow to List and Source to Active,Deactive. Click Ok.
4. Copy the cell P2 using Fill series/Fill Down or any other method you wish.

Use Worksheet Event Macro
Event macros should be placed only in the code window of target object. Since in this case our target is Sheet 3, we will place our macro in Sheet 3 only. This is because event macros only listens the events with which they are attached to. Here is event macro for this problem.

Solution:
1. Select the desired cell.
2. Press F2 and paste the following formula in it.
     =WEEKNUM(NOW())*7*(YEAR(NOW())-2008)+39804
3. press Enter and you’re done with solution.
Example:

Solution:

—-Beginner
      1. Introduction to Microsoft Excel 2007 and its components
      2. 10 ways to move in a worksheet in MS Excel 2007
      3. View more data in a worksheet
      4. Move between worksheets and Open workbooks
      5. Go to Cells quickly in Excel 2007
      6. Select Cells Using Keyboard and Mouse
      7. How to enter and delete data in MS Excel 2007
      8. How to edit or modify a cell in Excel 2007

—-Intermediate

—-Advanced

—-Beginner
—-Intermediate
—-Advanced

——-Beginner
——-Intermediate
——-Advanced

——-Beginner
——-Intermediate
——-Advanced

2. Using F2 key.
a. Select the cell of which contents needs to be changed.
b. Press F2 key.
c. Place your cursor according to modification and use backspace/delete key to remove the undesired contents and insert new data by simply entering it.

3. Using Double Click.
a. Double click on the cell of which contents needs to be changed.
b. Place your cursor according to modification and use backspace/delete key to remove the undesired contents and insert new data by simply entering it.

4. Replace the cell contents.
a. Select the cell of which contents needs to be replaced.
b. Start typing the new data. (Remember, its replacement not modification, so old data will be replaced with new content, you’ve just typed.)

2. Delete Data from a Cell.
a. Select the cell of which you want to delete the data.
b. Press Delete.
*Note: Read next post (How to edit a cell?), if you only need to delete some characters, not the whole data of a cell.

1. The Name Box
Like “Go to” explained in previous post, the NAME Box can also be used to go to a specific cell. Just type the cell you want to go to in the NAME box and then press Enter.

An excel workbook can contain a large number of worksheets. In such cases, switching between the sheets is difficult using a mouse. In addition, if the sheets name are long, this could further increase the problem of selection. apart from annoying method of selecting tabs from mouse, you can use any of the following available methods:

Using Keyboard
Use Ctrl+Page Down key combination to select next sheet in active workbook
and similarly, use Ctrl+Page Up key combination to select previous sheet in active workbook.

Using shortcut menu
1. Look at the bottom-left of worksheet (to the left of sheet tabs), there are small arrow buttons.

2. Place the mouse pointer over one of the arrows and right click.
3. A shortcut menu, displaying all the sheets will appear, select your sheet from there.

2. Click Switch Windows and choose a workbook from list of open workbooks.

Using Keyboard
1. Use Ctrl+F6 or Ctrl+Tab key combination to move forward through list of open workbooks.
2. Similarly, use Ctrl+Shift+F6 or Ctrl+Shift+Tab key combination to move backward through list of open workbooks.

c. Select Zoom.

d. Select Fit selection.

e. click ok.

b. To reduce the worksheet view, move the Zoom Slider(placed in bottom right of the workbook) to left.

b. Select FullScreen.

Microsoft Excel is an electronic spreadsheet that can be used to organize data rows and columns, to perform mathematical calculations quickly and can also be programmed to send your mails at pre-defined time.

If you have purchased a valid licensed copy of Microsoft Excel 2007 then open it following the instructions given below:
1. Go to Start –> Programs –> Microsoft Office –> Microsoft Excel 2007

The Microsoft Excel 2007 window appears and our screen looks similar to the one shown here.

Screen always might not look exactly like the screen shown. In Excel 2007, display of window depends on the size of the monitor and the resolution to which the monitor is set. Resolution determines how much information the computer monitor can display. A low resolution means less information fits on the screen, but the size of text and images are larger. Inversely, a high resolution means more information fits on the screen, but the size of the text and images are smaller. Also, settings in Excel 2007, Windows Vista, and Windows XP allow you to change the color and style of your windows.

Look at the upper-left corner of the Excel 2007 window, it is the Microsoft Office button. When you click this button, a menu will appear. This menu can be used to create a new file, open an existing file, save a file, and perform many other tasks.

Right to the Microsoft Office button is the Quick Access toolbar. The Quick Access toolbar gives access to commands we frequently use. By default, Save (to save your files), Undo (to rollback an action), and Redo (to reapply an rolled back action) appear on the Quick Access toolbar.

Next to the Quick Access toolbar is the Title bar. On the Title bar, Microsoft Excel displays the name of the workbook, which is currently in use.

We use commands to tell Microsoft Excel what to do. In Microsoft Excel 2007, we use the Ribbon to issue commands. The Ribbon is located near the top of the Excel window and below the Quick Access toolbar. At the top of the Ribbon are several tabs; clicking a tab displays several related command groups. Within each group are related command buttons. Buttons are clicked to issue commands or to access menus and dialog boxes. You may also find a dialog box launcher in the bottom-right corner of a group. When you click the dialog box launcher, a dialog box makes additional commands available.

If the Formula bar is turned on, then in the Name box (located on left side) it displays the cell address of the cell you are in. Cell entries which can be a values or formulas are displayed on the right side of the Formula bar. To turn on the Formula bar in Excel 2007 window, perform the following steps:

1. Click the View tab.
2. Click Formula Bar in the Show/Hide group. The Formula bar appears.

The Status bar appears at the bottom of the Excel 2007 window and provides quick information such as the count, sum, average, minimum, and maximum value of selected numbers. We can change what displays on the Status bar by right-clicking on the Status bar and selecting the options we want from the Customize Status Bar menu. We just need to click a menu item to select it and click it again to deselect it. A check mark appearing next to an item means the item is selected.

Microsoft Excel 2007 consists of worksheets (Default Names are “Sheet1″, “Sheet2″ and “Sheet3″). Each worksheet contains columns and rows. The columns are lettered A to Z and then continuing with AA, AB, AC to AZ and then continuing with AAA, AAB and so on up to XFD (total columns are 16384); the rows are numbered 1 to 1,048,576.

The combination of a column coordinate and a row coordinate defines a cell address. For example, the cell located in the upper-left corner of the worksheet is cell A1, meaning column A, row 1. Cell C7 is located under column C on row 7. We enter our data into the cells on the worksheet.

2. Delete Data from a Cell.
a. Select the cell of which you want to delete the data.
b. Press Delete.
*Note: Read next post (How to edit a cell?), if you only need to delete some characters, not the whole data of a cell.

      ii. Click “Find & Select”
      iii. Select “Go to”

  b. Using Keyboard
      i. Press F5 or Ctrl+G key combination.

2. In the reference field, type the name of cell. e.g. J10, B5, AE100
    (*Note: Column name appear first in this style, followed by Row number.)

3. Click Ok

Workbook

Worksheets

1. Sort all sheets
2. Remove blank worksheets from Current workbook
3. Color all Sheet Tabs
4. Remove color from all sheet tabs
5. Protect all worksheets
6. Remove Password (Unprotect) all worksheets
7. Insert ‘n’ number of Blank Worksheets

Range

1. Color a range based on its percentage value

Select

1. Invert the Selection

Number


Rows/Columns

1. Delete Blank Rows
2. Remove Empty Columns

Text

1. Change Case (Upper, Lower, Proper, Sentence and Toggle)
   
2. Remove Extra Spaces (Left, Right, Both sides and from Inside)

Format

1. Partly Background Color a Cell (Coloring only a portion of Cell)

Form

1. Resize Form during Run-Time

Event Macro

1. Example of Worksheet_Change Event Macro

Miscellaneous

1. Access Internet Explorer (Search Engine Example)
2. Change Image Location
3. Copy Excel Worksheets to MS Word

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Title: Excel 2007 Power Programming with VBA
Author: John Walkenbach
Pages: 1104
Description: This power-user’s guide is packed with procedures, tips, and ideas for expanding Excel’s capabilities with Visual Basic® for Applications. Excel 2007 has a few new tricks up its sleeve, and John Walkenbach helps you make the most of them all.
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Author: John Walkenbach
Pages: 840
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It’s estimated that only about ten percent of Excel users really understand how to get the most out of worksheet formulas. If you’re ready to join that elite group, here’s your book which has:
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2. Find errors and debug formulas.
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Title: Access 2007 VBA Programmer’s Reference
Authors: Teresa Hennig, Rob Cooper, Geoffrey L. Griffith, Armen Stein
Pages: 1152
Description: Written by Access MVPs and Microsoft Access testers, this resource will give you the tools to leverage Access 2007′s built-in functionality and VBA in order to build more dynamic applications. It explores all aspects of VBA programming for Access and describes the latest innovations. You’ll also find several commonly used techniques and sample code to help you get started, as well as expert tips to make your code easier to maintain.

The expert author team will show you how to create and name variables, manipulate data using Data Access Object (DAO) and ActiveX® Data Object (ADO), handle errors, and create classes. You’ll also learn how to utilize the latest wizards as well as modify and enhance the code that the wizards create. And you’ll learn how to take advantage of key new objects, enhanced macros, and the Office Ribbon.

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Title: VBA and Macros for Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Author: Bill Jelen and Tracy Syrstad
Pages: 624
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Author: Jeff Webb and Steve Saunders
Pages: 1114
Description: This book teaches you how to use Excel VBA by explaining concepts clearly and concisely in plain English, and provides plenty of downloadable samples so you can learn by doing. You’ll be exposed to a wide range of tasks most commonly performed with Excel, arranged into chapters according to subject, with those subjects corresponding to one or more Excel objects. With both the samples and important reference information for each object included right in the chapters, instead of tucked away in separate sections, Programming Excel with VBA and .NET covers the entire Excel object library. For those just starting out, it also lays down the basic rules common to all programming languages. Developers looking forward to .NET development will also find discussion of how the Excel object model works with .NET tools, including Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO).

Title: Integrating Excel and Access
Author: Michael Schmalz
Pages: 232
Description: Introducing “Integrating Excel and Access,” the unique reference that shows you how to combine the strengths of Microsoft Excel with those of Microsoft Access. In particular, the book explains how the powerful analysis tools of Excel can work in concert with the structured storage and more powerful querying of Access. The results that these two applications can produce together are virtually impossible to achieve with one program separately.

But the book isn’t just limited to Excel and Access. There’s also a chapter on SQL Server, as well as one dedicated to integrating with other Microsoft Office applications.

Title: VBA for Modelers: Developing Decision Support Systems Using Microsoft® Excel
Author: S. Christian Albright
Pages: 204
Description: Learn more effective modeling techniques than ever before! VBA FOR MODELERS: DEVELOPING DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS USING MICROSOFT ® EXCEL shows you the easy way to automate methods and models and create special applications. You’ll learn sophisticated techniques through a simple and clean interface, so there’s no more long nights of trying to make it work. And because it works with Microsoft ® Excel, you’ll be saving time while the program crunches all the numbers.

Title: Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007: VSTO for Excel, Word, and Outlook
Author: Eric Carter and Eric Lippert
Pages: 1120
Description: This is the definitive book on VSTO 2008 programming, written by the inventors of the technology. VSTO is a set of tools that allows professional developers to use the full power of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework to program against Microsoft Office 2007.

This book delivers in one place all the information you need to succeed using VSTO to program against Word 2007, Excel 2007, and Outlook 2007, and provides the necessary background to customize Visio 2007, Publisher 2007, and PowerPoint 2007. It introduces the Office 2007 object models, covers the most commonly used objects in those object models, and will help you avoid the pitfalls caused by the COM origins of the Office object models. Developers who wish to program against Office 2003 should consult Carter and Lippert’s previous book, Visual Studio Tools for Office.

In VSTO 2008, you can build add-ins for all the major Office 2007 applications, build application-level custom task panes, customize the new Office Ribbon, modify Outlook’s user interface using Form Regions, and easily deploy everything you build using ClickOnce.

Title: Pro Office 2007 Development with VSTO
Author: Ty Anderson
Pages: 320
Description: This book is for Professional Microsoft Office application developers (and those aspiring to be so) who are interested in creating enterprise applications on the solid base of Microsoft Office 2007. The complexity of the examples assumes an intermediate–to–advanced level of experience with Microsoft .NET. Proficient VBA developers wishing to take their skills to the next level will also benefit by this book.

This takes you far beyond traditional VBA programming, showing you how to transform Microsoft Office 2007 into a complete enterprise application development platform. By the end of the book, you will be creating your own powerful, customized Office Business Applications (OBAs), using the techniques Ty has taught you throughout. The author demonstrates how to leverage all aspects of the Microsoft Office application platform (covering Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and InfoPath) so you can create OBAs that increase information worker productivity, unlock business data stored in documents, reduce end–user training costs, increase developer productivity, and reduce IT operations costs.

Title: VSTO for Mere Mortals(TM): A VBA Developer’s Guide to MS Office Development Using VSTO
Author: Paul Stubbs and Kathleen McGrath
Pages: 736
Description: This is for VBA developers who are interested in migrating their skills to the next generation of Office development. Readers will benefit from a straightforward, practical introduction to writing managed code applications for Word 2003, Excel 2003, and Outlook 2003. Readers will also learn how to create add-ins for the most popular applications for Office 2003 and the 2007 Microsoft Office system using VSTO 2005 SE.

The expert authors provide a wealth of code samples that show off popular features of VSTO, such as smart tags and the actions pane. Sample code also shows you how to customize the new UI features of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, including the ribbon, custom task pane, and Outlook forms region.

Title: Beginning Office 2007 Development with VSTO
Author: Vivek Thangaswamy
Pages: 300
Description: This book starts from the beginning, building a solid programming foundation in VSTO for brand–new Office developers and keen enthusiasts. Author Vivek Thangaswamy, a professional application developer and Microsoft MVP, uses his vast experience to help you better understand the ins and outs of VSTO in the context of each of the popular Office applications: Word, Excel, InfoPath, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Visio.

This book takes you beyond the traditional VBA programming boundaries and shows you the new world of transforming Microsoft Office 2007 into a complete enterprise application development platform. By the end, you will be able to create your own fully featured Office extensions using the simple examples that the author lays out for you.

Title: Word 2007 Document Automation with VBA and VSTO
Author: Scott Driza
Pages: 500
Description: This book focuses on innovative ways to create customized Word documents and templates. It contains an in-depth introduction to VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), which is the embedded programming language in the Microsoft Office 2007. VBA provides a complete integrated development environment (IDE) that allows for document automation, the process of using an automated template for creating documents. The book also includes coverage of the new features of Word 2007 including Content Controls, programming the Ribbon, and more.

Title: Excel 2007 Bible
Author: John Walkenbach
Pages: 912
Description: Whether you’re already a power user or just starting, find out how to get the most out of this major new release of Excel from expert instructor and Microsoft MVP, “Mr. Spreadsheet,” John Walkenbach. Each of the book’s seven parts thoroughly focuses on key elements, so no matter what your level of expertise, you’ll find what you need in the hundreds of examples, techniques, and tips in this comprehensive resource.

This book is a single reference that’s indispensable for Excel beginners, intermediate users, power users, and would-be power users everywhere.It is fully updated for the new release, this latest edition provides comprehensive, soup-to-nuts coverage, delivering over 900 pages of Excel tips, tricks, and techniques readers won’t find anywhere else. John Walkenbach is one of the world’s leading authorities on Excel. Thoroughly updated to cover the revamped Excel interface, new file formats, enhanced interactivity with other Office applications, and upgraded collaboration features. It includes a valuable CD-ROM with templates and worksheets from the book.

Title: Office 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
Author: Peter Weverka
Pages: 816
Description: It gives you a set of tools for managing documents and data, analyzing numbers, organizing your e-mail and schedule, building presentations, and designing publications – and this book covers them all! Get the scoop on all the Office programs, find out how to supercharge your productivity by using them together, and much more.

Title: Excel 2007 VBA Programming For Dummies
Author: John Walkenbach
Pages: 368
Description: Make Excel 2007 work for you! This clear, nonintimidating guide shows you how to use VBA to create Excel apps that look and work the way you want. Packed with plenty of sample programs, it explains how to work with range objects, control program flow, develop custom dialog boxes, create custom toolbars and menus, and much more.

Title: iWork ’09: The Missing Manual
Author: Josh Clark
Pages: 850
Description: With iWork ’09, Apple’s productivity applications have come of age. Unfortunately, their user guides are stuck in infancy. That’s where iWork ’09: The Missing Manual comes in. This book quickly guides you through everything you need to know about the Pages word-processor, the Numbers spreadsheet, and the Keynote presentation program that Al Gore and Steve Jobs made famous.

Friendly and entertaining, iWork ’09: The Missing Manual gives you crystal-clear and jargon-free explanations of iWork’s capabilities, its advantages over similar programs — and its limitations. You’ll see these programs through an objective lens that shows you which features work well and which don’t.