VBA introductory book for non programmer recommendation

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VBA introductory book for non programmer recommendation

A coleague of mine has shown interest in learning a little about vba scripting. Unfortunatelly, I don't have time to show her, and even if I did, I'm horrible at explaining things to people.

Can you recommend a good VBA book for someone who's never done any programming, that is, has a nice easy approach with lots of examples ?
I've checked out a few Amazon references, but in most cases user reviews there go from "yeeah, great book" to "this book sucks" ... not making it any easier to conclude anything.

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I think that John Walkenbach's Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA is the best resource for Excel VBA but it might be a little much for a new programmer. Walkenbach also wrote Excel VBA Programming For Dummies.

Daily Dose of Excel has a recommended book list. Plus the blog itself is a good VBA resource.

Mark Lavin 2009-05-29 15:09:29

I don't have that Dummies book on my list? I'll be fixing that shortly. I agree that for a new programmer, the best progression is Dummies - Power Programming - Professional Excel Dev

Dick Kusleika 2009-05-29 16:28:07

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You do not say which MS application your colleaugue wishes to try. There have been previous threads:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/483086/book-recommendation-for-visual-basic http://stackoverflow.com/questions/277474/programming-excel

Remou 2009-05-29 15:29:23

Excel mostly. We are an engineering company, and people who are less inclined to programming do mostly everything in excel and matlab.

ldigas 2009-05-29 16:04:41

Yes, the information was derivable from his proper use of tags;)

Oorang 2009-05-29 20:14:59

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