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Title: Writing Excel Macros by Steven Ph.D. Roman ISBN: 1-56592-587-4 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.14 (22 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good text - bad examples
Comment: I have read several of Steven Roman's books. He knows the subject well, and his information about the VBA development environment is very good, even if it is repeated in several of his VBA and macro books. The information on creating custom toolbars and menus is the clearest that I have seen. He also gives a complete list of all the internal menus, toolbar buttons and icons available in Excel.
On the downside - Mr. Roman is terrible at presenting useful examples. In this book he has a complex example that runs through the text. I prefer that each topic has its own examples. I do not want to build an example application by reading and working through chapters that I am not very interested in, just to be able to work with the examples in the sections I am interested in. The author even mentions that he would normally present the book's material in a different sequence, but that would not follow what is needed for his example.
Other books by Mr. Roman also have these complex examples. He is a professor of mathematics and he uses a Turing engine in his Visual Basic Objects book. A lot of programmers, and would-be programmers, do not have an extensive math background. A more common and mundane example would have been preferable.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great resource
Comment: I find this book to be an indispensable resource in my work customizing Excel for a global financial institution. Being a self-taught programmer, I find some of the text a huge bore and mainly use the code examples, rewriting it to fit my needs. I do not waste my time going through his exercises because they seem laborious and I need fast answers. For that, however, it has proved itself invaluable. I will admit that the examples are so plain vanilla in here that you have to know how to use Excel and VBA to apply them to actual situations. Without this book, though, just having those manuals isn't enough. It really fills out the missing info. When you find yourself stuck, you'll be glad you have it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Bad Index
Comment: I bought this book and I am not satisfied because the examples are not clear, the index is not complete. The contents are not bad and quite complete. I think the author want to make the book as a reference book but fail because it is very difficult to find even the keywords.
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Title: Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition by Steven Roman ISBN: 0596003595 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Writing Word Macros by Steven Ph.D. Roman ISBN: 1565927257 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Excel Programming: Your Visual Blueprint for Creating Interactive Spreadsheets (With CD-ROM) by Jinjer Simon ISBN: 076453646X Publisher: Visual Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.99 |
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Title: VB and VBA in a Nutshell: The Languages by Paul Lomax ISBN: 1565923588 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Microsoft Excel 2002 Formulas (With CD-ROM) by John Walkenbach ISBN: 076454800X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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