Ventana explores VBA in Visual Guide

CHAPEL HILL, NC--Visual Basic for Applications, Microsoft's effort to tie
all of its key apps together with a single programming language,
represents a quantum leap in the user's ability to customize today's most
popular business software. The Visual Guide to Visual Basic for
Applications, with its companion disk, puts these impressive tools into
users' hands, with a clear, understandable, in-depth look at all VBA
features, techniques, and tools.

The Visual Guide to Visual Basic for Applications is the newest title in
Ventana Press's Visual Guide series, which began with the acclaimed Visual
Guide to Visual Basic for Windows, also by Richard Mansfield. Divided into
two sections, the book first explores VBA's interface, tools, history and
concepts, and then dissects each major command and object new to Visual
Basic. True to Ventana's Visual Guide tradition, The Visual Guide to
Visual Basic for Applications employs extensive illustrations and
examples.

The disk contains a selection of these graphics and all of the programming
examples in the book.

Written for intermediate to advanced readers, The Visual Guide to Visual
Basic for Applications includes the following:

* Tips and examples for expanding the tools at hand using OLE,
  DDE, Linking and Embedding and the new Automation technology.
* An in-depth description of dozens of powerful new Basic
  commands including With, For...Each and Group.
* A sample customization project that creates a working
  spreadsheet featuring available models, inventory and graphic
  illustration.
* A look at how to use the REGEDIT program to discover the OLE
  capabilities and syntax for contacting any application and
  manipulating applications.
* Step-by-step examples of how to take advantage of OLE
  Automation, how to use Word's wordcount remotely for text
  boxes--for example, how to use Word's Thesaurus, remotely,
  against a document in a text box in Visual Basic or Excel--and
  much more.

"The Visual Guide to Visual Basic for Applications teaches how to use VBA
and OLE 2.0 to break down the barriers between your programs, moving
toward the ideal of freeing information from any particular application,"
Mansfield said. "The ultimate goal is 'information at your fingertips' and
VBA/OLE takes a big step in that direction."

While most of the examples involve the Excel application, where VBA's
installation is currently most robust, the techniques are largely
application-independent. Users of any Microsoft application can learn from
this book.

The Visual Guide to Visual Basic for Applications is 350 pages,
illustrated, with disk. ISBN: 1-56604-147-3. List price: $27.95. For
orders only in the US: 1-800-743-5369.

Richard Mansfield was editor of Compute! magazine and is the author of more
than one hundred computer-related articles and ten books on computing,
including Desktop Publishing With WordPerfect 6, The Visual Guide to
Visual Basic for Windows and Desktop Publishing With WordPerfect for
Windows, all from Ventana Press.

Ventana Press publishes books and other materials that help computer users
become more productive, including The Windows Internet Tour Guide, Looking
Good With CorelDRAW!, The Windows Shareware 500, Voodoo Windows,
Advertising From the Desktop and The Presentation Design Book. All titles
are available in bookstores and by writing Ventana Press, P.O. Box 2468,
Chapel Hill, NC 27515 or by calling Ventana's toll-free order line,
1-800-743-5369,  919/942-0220; FAX 919/942-1140.

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