VBA starting point

[Maria]

The only "Step-by-Step" book by Microsoft on Word VBA
that I can find is "Word 97 VBA for Applications." If I
buy that, would it still be a good starting place for
Word 2002?

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Hi Maria,

It would be no better and no worse that it would have been for Word97

Why don't you look at the article "Getting to grips with VBA basics in 15
minutes" at:

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/VBABasicsIn15Mins.htm

and some of the other articles on that site.

I am not really a fan of any books.

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Michael Smith]

If you look on amazon.com there are other more contemporary books, but I've
never read them so I can't recomend them.

I have, however, read Word 97 Macro & VBA Handbook ISBN: 0-7821-1962-X, and
I highly recomend it, if you have no programming experience. The first 140
pages teach you how to use all the built in functions of Word that most
people don't use. Then, the remaining 700 pages teach you VBA from the
ground up.

I suspect a few objects and properties have changed over the years, but the
principals are the same. I use Word 2000 and haven't found any discrepencies
between the book and Word 2000, so you should probably be able to get a good
understanding of how everything works.

Mike

 

[Howard Kaikow]

Yes, but it is out of print.

See the list of Word VBA books at my URL below.

Best place to start is Steve Roman's Writing Word Macros.