Good book to learn to program in Word?

[Webtechie]

Hello,

As a developer, I use VBA a lot. I have a book for professional development
in Excel which is outstanding.

I have an Access developer's handbook as well as a Outlook VBA book. Now I
have a few projects involving Word. Does anyone have a book that goes into
Development with Mircosoft Word (userforms, objects, etc.)

Thanks.

Tony

 

[Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com]

If you were a noob I'd suggest Steven Roman's Word VBA book (and others would
probably deride my recommendation - but that's OK <g>). However, since you
appear to have a fair amount of VBA experience already, that book is probably
a bit too simply for you. Unfortunately, I haven't come across many other
books that *do* work well for the more seasoned programmer.

Most of what I've learned - and I like to think that I've learned a lot over
the years - has come via the VBA help and IntelliSense, the excellent
information that's available on the sites of various other MVPs, and asking
questions in this NG. (Sometime they're really stupid questions too; it's a
good thing that the geeks who hang out in here are so tolerant - not like in
some *other* NGs I could name...)

I'd suggest checking out the offerings from the publisher/s of the other
books you have and seeing if they've got a Word book as well. Usually quality
runs through the line.
--
Cheers!

Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

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[Peter Jamieson]

I've only ever come across one Word book that goes in-depth into a broad
cross-section of Word programming topics (and I don't mean just
regurgitating the documentation as so many books do). Being one of the
authors, I have a vested interest, but unfortunately for English-only
speakers it's in German:. But you never know:

Microsoft Word-Programmierung - Das Handbuch
Insider-Wissen - praxisnah & kompetent! Jetzt auch für Word 2007
Entwicklung & Automatisierung mit VBA, XML und VSTO - 2., erweiterte Auflage
Von: Meister / Gahler / Freßdorf / Jamieson

http://www.microsoft-press.de/search.asp?cnt=search&s3=9783866454149

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

 

[Paul Shapiro]

I think "Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007 (VSTO for Excel, Word and
Outlook)" by Eric Carter and Eric Lippert is terrific for an experienced
programmer. The focus is on VSTO rather than VBA, but the Word object model
is the same for both. They do a great job explaining how to best use the
object model.