VBA For Dummies, 5th Edition

Introduction 1

Part I: An Overview of VBA 7

Chapter 1: Getting to Know VBA 9

Chapter 2: Your First VBA Program 33

Part II: Learning the Ropes 49

Chapter 3: Writing Structured VBA Programs 51

Chapter 4: Storing and Modifying Information 79

Chapter 5: Creating Structured Programs 111

Chapter 6: Trapping Errors and Squashing Bugs 133

Chapter 7: Interacting with the User 155

Part III: Expanding Your VBA Horizons 179

Chapter 8: Object-Oriented Programming 181

Chapter 9: Working with Arrays and Collections 205

Chapter 10: Working with Disk Files 229

Chapter 11: VBA Programming with XML 239

Part IV: Programming for Applications 255

Chapter 12: VBA Programming in Office 257

Chapter 13: VBA Programming in Word 277

Chapter 14: VBA Programming in Excel 305

Chapter 15: VBA Programming in Access 329

Chapter 16: Applications that Work Together 355

Part V: The Part of Tens 379

Chapter 17: Ten Kinds of VBA Resources 381

Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Update Your Old VBA Code Quickly 389

On the Web

Bonus Chapter 1: VBA Programming in FrontPage BC1

Bonus Chapter 2: VBA Programming in Visio BC25

Bonus Chapter 3: Ten Really Cool Things You Can Do with VBA BC43

Index 397