Recommend a book please

I am in the very early stages of trying to teach myself VBA for MS Word. I have some knowledge of programming in Java and C++. I need a good book to get me started. I have found it is not the code itself that I am having trouble with, it is how the environment works that has me confused. I need to see how to implement solutions to some basic real world problems. Seeing code examples in isolation is not proving to be of much use, I can work that out. I need to see examples of how you implement the code and incorporate it into documents for use, and then how you use it.

For example I need to know the whats, hows and whys of projects, modules, class modules, objects, user forms, references, MS Word objects and templates etc. All these terms mean little to me at the moment. I know what an object is in terms of OO programming, but this VBA world is all new to me.

Here's an example of what I need. Say I want to create a document (or would it be a template ) that allows the user to input their personal details (say name, address & phone number) into various fields and answer questions about themselves using radio buttons (say male or female) and drop down menus (say occupation category and eye colour. I then would have the user click on a button and the information would be then transferred to a new document in a nice format, saved in a location the user selects under a filename the user selects and prints it. I want to see in detail the ENTIRE process required to do this (EVERY STEP, NOT JUST THE CODING) and exactly how a user would use such a document (template ). Viewing a chunk of code that carries out the tasks is nice, but on its own is useless to me. A few good examples like this and I would be up and running I feel.

Can anyone recommend a book or other reference to me Maybe some good samaritan could help me through such an example (asking an awful lot I know, but I can only ask)



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Recommend a book please

  • Jens-Christian Larsen

    Thanks, that link looks quite good.

  • Klgsx

    The "Master Visually" range has a comprehensive range of books for VB and other good stuff.

    I have used the Excel 2003 VBA Programming as a complete beginner and it is very helpful.

    Another is the " VB for Dummies", but that might be a little junior for you!

    Hope that helps.

    Mark


  • toniSQL

    Have not read it myself but you might find it useful.

    http://www.fontstuff.com/ebooks/ebookvbetoc.htm

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