Excel VBA 24-Hour Trainer 1st Edition

I am hardly far enough along to give a real review of the book itself although I do find that it is fairly well written and useful. On the other hand I can't say so much for the publisher. Wrox is the publisher and is a Wiley company and they do not respond to errata reports other than saying they have been closed. There are very clear instructions in the book on how to submit errata reports and why they are important to other readers but sadly they are ignored by Wrox. I have reported 3 easily verifiable errors in verbiage in December 2014 with all being closed and not posted to the errata page. One of the errors is wrong in the step by step instructions but is correct on the next page where the completed code is shown and another that states you can see how to in the following example but there is no example.

Easy to follow step-by-step directions. Does not get much into advanced topics but it should suffice for most as a refresher. However, the quality of printing/typesetting could use some improvement as most of the figures look washed out and there is no printing contrast in the code examples. If this issue were not present, I would have given a 5-star rating. So, 5-stars to the author but less star for publisher/printer quality.

I bought this book to try to switch some of my data crunching from Python back to Excel, and learn a bit more "Macro-fu". This book is great, and it made the learning curve quite flat. The examples are pretty good and easy to follow, however they are over-commented, making the actual code difficult to decipher in places. I would recommend this for anyone who is looking for a quick introduction to VBA for Excel, and who already has a pretty good understanding of the underlying Excel functions.

I bought this book thinking that it would give me a good lesson-type approach to learn VBA but it's not like that so I rate it one star. If you're a programmer already you would probably feel otherwise.

only plain english book i've found

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I am a confident user of Excel and wanted to expand my Excel skills by learning VBA. After reading the description and using the look-inside feature on Amazon I thought I found a book that would be a good introductory book into VBA for Excel. Unfortunately the video, I feel, is a waste of time to watch. It is a guy entering VBA and the video is so poor quality you cannot read what he is typing and does not have a good video voice. Instead you have to rely on the book. Second the structure of the book I think struggles between trying to be technical for those who maybe familiar with VBA and simple for those just starting out. The end result is a book where you have to re-read the same information over because it is not clear. Third problem with the book it is more about learning commands instead of learning about the reasons for what you are doing or situations you might use it. My own feeling if the author and editor spent more time on editing the book for readability and completely discarded the video then it might be a very good book. The only reader that might find the book mildly useful is someone who has some Excel VBA knowledge and is looking for a reference book that focuses on code instead of the technical aspects of Excel VBA.

This book does not have good application examples.Filled with what the commands can do but insufficient in application examples.Need an engineer to write VBA Excel because the other disciplines do not have the higher engineering mathematical application which Excel is meant for.Certainly not meant for the reader who dont like book keeping!

Very helpful

Despite being used it was in great condition. I'm grateful that I was able to find an outdated edition on a great discount. Much appreciated!