Designed to provide non-developers with a hands-on guide to Excel Visual Basic for Applications, this book gives users a wide range of VBA coverage, along with an introduction to the Extensible Markup Language and Active Server Pages technologies.

• Quickly learn how to program by utilizing the built-in macro recorder.
• Add decision-making and repetition to your procedures.
• Control other applications from within Excel through Automation.
• Create and customize user forms, menus, and toolbars.
• Learn how to handle errors and debug your programs by using built-in debugging tools.
• Perform Access tasks from within Excel.
• Discover how to put Excel data on a web page and retrieve data from the web into an Excel worksheet.
• Work with Excel spreadsheets saved in XML format.
• Program special features such as the Microsoft Office XP PivotTable and PivotChart web components.
• Learn how to use a number of objects from the Excel 2002 and Office XP Object Models.