Chapter 1. Becoming an Excel Programmer

How do you become an excellent Excel programmer? The first step for most folks is to buy a book. I’m glad you bought this one. Next, you’ve got to learn the programming tools that Excel provides. Visual Basic is ideally suited as a learning tool because it lets you get started without a lot of pedagogical preparation. That’s an alliterative way of saying that you can learn the rules as you go.

So let’s go!

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Code used in this chapter and additional samples are available in ch01.xls.

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