VBA and Macros for Microsoft Excel

**Zack Barresse** · 06-13-2005, 05:00 PM

Title:
VBA and Macros for Microsoft Excel
Authors:
Bill Jelen and Tracy Syrstad
ISBN:
0789731290
Publisher:
Que
Year:
May 2004

Target group:
Beginner to intermediate Excel VBA users.

Ranking:
On a scale from 1 to 5 : 4
On a scale from 1 to 10 : 8

Links:
MrExcel Shop
Amazon.com

Comments:
A good book for the beginner to intermediate Excel VBA user. The book covers a lot of examples and solid comments to back it up. With a solid 26 chapters, this book is packed with many examples and tutorials for easy learning through application. Example code is commented well and explanations are fairly well suited. Coding is consistent and quite dynamic. The examples are found in nice packages, easy for dropping into one's own spreadsheets with little or no customization needed.

If you peruse MrExcel.com at all, you will most likely recognize many contributors for the book. This does make the book quite a personable work and adds a good deal of variety to it. This truly does show how teamwork can help make a project come together well.

**shades** · 06-13-2005, 05:38 PM

I agree, Zack. I have been working through several chapters (on both Win and Mac), and have learned something new on almost every page. Sometimes a single line contains a new or different approach to a problem that causes me to experiment and see if indeed it is really that way. It will take a while for it all to sink in, but it is one of the best books I have on Excel.