I use a book like this mainly for reference on specific points. The index is so defective, however, that the book is almost entirely worthless. (Try looking up "Shared Workspace task pane", for example)

I agree with the masses, not such a good book. Does anyone know where the errata is located at for this book?

This book should not have been published as is; it needs to be re-written again. The chapters are not logically connected; even the topics in the chapters are disconnected and lack logical progression. They also need to remove the numerous tables of descriptions. Who wants to read page after page of descriptions, which are usually found on the Help menu. On the other hand, they need to add more examples in a logical sequence, and add comments to their VBA code for better understanding. In the future, I'll be suspicious of a book that is written by three or more authors.

I have recently been turned on to Visual Basic due to my position in an Engineering Firm. We deal with a ton of calculations based on current projects. This book has helped tremendously in getting a foothold of the begining stages of Excels Visual Basic coding.

Some of the other reviewers have not been happy with this book and claim it to be useless. I do not find that to be true. If you are an advanced user/developer of excel programing then there ARE many books that will help more than this book, but if you have never done any coding in Excel, then this book is a really good start. Hey, where can you find a good intro book of this caliber, used, for less than $5.00?

This book does have it's down falls. It is a bit difficult to follow sometimes in that they don't really give more detailed explainations of how things go together but if you can read the first few chapters and still understand then you should have no problems working through this down fall.

This book does have a large amount of information in it. It covers all the topics that a beginning coder would need. They discuss in each chapter what the topis is for and how it works. The layout of this book is a nice one too. I have 'Inside Out' books on 'MS Project & Outlook'. These are very nice as well and the main reason I went with this book on Excel. I do not feel I went wrong here at all and would recommend this book to anyone wanting to get into Excel Programming.

In Summary, this is a good book for the price. You should find it helpful while on your path to Excel programming.

This book isn't worth your time or money. I certainly wasted mine on it. The Author is so caught up in his ability to write code that he forgot what the book is about. No explanations of the code are offered so that you can follow his train of thought. I think he is off in the Delta Quadrant somewhere. The index is next to useless. Try to find 'comments' and you are directed to a page that has the word 'comments' on it but explains nothing regarding adding COMMENTS to your code. Most of his examples don't even work outside his tiny environment - I couldn't make any of them work in my Excel code. Forget troubleshooting your code! His code is so perfect he obviously didn't fell the need to write anything that helps debug your code. The book also lacks an appendix with a list of functions for easy reference. If you want a function your going to spend a huge amount of time flipping through pages. DON'T BUY!

I bought this book four months ago, and I've found it a great introduction to Excel Programming.
The VBA Programming Starter Kit (Chapter 4) begins a series of chapters that walk through the fundamentals -- it's one of the best intros on the subject I've seen.
I also like the "Inside Out" boxed section which often provide facts I often didn't know about.
I'm an experienced Excel programmer, so I'm not really the audience for this book, but if you're getting started this is a great place to begin.
Most of the value to me was in the "Inside Out" sections and the database chapters -- for one thing it got me started using worksheet functions like VLookup in my VBA code. I tended to take a VBA code approach to those problems, but heck it's easier to just use the built-in Excel stuff -- good luck finding that info in the product doc!
If there's any criticism I would level it's that it doesn't cover the new Excel features at any depth: don't expect to find info on XML Maps, Lists, Workspaces, or Permissions. That infos not in the Walkenbach book either, unfortunately (I sent that one back).
Also, this book is not a VBA/Excel reference. I think some of the other reviewers had that assumption and where disappointed. Look to another book if you want a reference.