This book is a fairly comprehensive resource on writing VBA code to exchange data among the main Office applications (Access, Word, Excel, and Outlook), using Access as the central application for storing data, and using the other applications for producing attractively formatted documents of various types.

By the time you have completed the Access 2007 VBA Bible, you will be well-prepared to write VBA Automation code that uses your Access data to produce Word letters, mailing labels and other documents (without the overhead of mail merge), to create Excel worksheets and PivotCharts, and to create Outlook appointments, mail messages, contacts, and journal items, with or without attachments. Additionally, you will be able to synchronize contact data (both ways) between Access and Outlook.

Feel the power of VBA and Excel

No one can uncover Excel’s hidden capabilities like "Mr. Spreadsheet" himself. John Walkenbach begins this power user’s guide with a conceptual overview, an analysis of Excel application development, and a complete introduction to VBA. Then, he shows you how to customize Excel UserForms, develop new utilities, use VBA with charts and pivot tables, create event-handling applications, and much more. If you’re fairly new to Excel programming, here’s the foundation you need. If you’re already a VBA veteran, you can start mining a rich lode of programming ideas right away.

Everything you need to know about:

* Creating stellar UserForms and custom dialog box alternatives
* Working with VBA subprocedures and function procedures
* Incorporating event-handling and interactions with other applications
* Building user-friendly toolbars, menus, and help systems
* Manipulating files and Visual Basic® components
* Understanding class modules
* Managing compatibility issues

Beginning PivotTables in Excel 2007 explains what Pivot Tables are, how you can benefit from using them, how to create them and modify them, and how to use their enhanced features. Using a Pivot Table in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is a quick and exciting way to slice and dice a large amount of data.

• Carefully explains the benefits of using Pivot Tables for fast data analysis
• Provides a step-by-step approach to those new to Pivot Tables
• Offers tips and tricks that cannot be found elsewhere

What you’ll learn

• Summarize thousands of records in a Pivot Table with a few clicks of the mouse.
• Quickly change the Pivot Table layout to view a different summary of the data.
• Filter a Pivot Table to focus on one region or the top 10 products.
• Add colors or icons to highlight the high or low results.
• Use calculations to enhance the Pivot Table summaries.
• Create visual impact with a pivot chart.

Providing the tools and techniques necessary for finding errors and fraud in audits, this guide for auditors looking to better validate their Microsoft Excel spreadsheets provides techniques for performing a risk assessment and gathering spreadsheet and other data from company systems. Performing audit data analysis using data and analytical management functions and pinpointing the common errors in spreadsheets with focused Excel tests is discussed, as are the best practices for error and fraud prevention when developing spreadsheets. This reference is fully updated to reflect Excel 12.

My goal in writing this book is to share with you some of what I know about Excel, and in the process, make you more efficient on the job. The book contains everything that you need to know to learn the basics of Excel and then move on to more advanced topics at your own pace. You’ll find many useful examples and lots of tips and tricks that I’ve accumulated over the years.

In this book, I’ve tried to maintain a good balance between the basics that every Excel user needs to know and the more complex topics that will appeal to power users. I’ve used Excel for nearly 20 years, and I realize that almost everyone still has something to learn (including myself). My goal is to make that learning an enjoyable process.

This book was written for Excel 2007 for Windows. No exceptions. If you’re using an older version of Excel, I suggest that you put down this book immediately and find a book that’s appropriate for your version of Excel. The changes in Excel 2007 are so extensive that you’ll probably be hopelessly confused if you use an earlier version.