What technical reference books does everyone recommend

[SBendBuckeye]

I have done quite a bit of Access and learned a significant portion of what I know from Access Developers Handbook by Getz, Litwin, etc. Is there an equivalent for Office development?

The object models are different enough that it can be frustrating at times.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

Have a great day!

 

[Loomah]

Although I don't have any, I have heard many praises sung for John Walkenbach's excel books on this site. Can't remember the web site but I think it's

http://www.j-walk.com.

If anyone has any other suggestions it might be worth posting them and I'll try to put a FAQ together.

;-) If a man says something and there are no women there to hear him, is he still wrong?

 

[gusset]

i would buy the o'reilly books. the ones with the animals on the front. Learning Word Programming, for example, by Stephen Roman. though i find it a little confusing on ranges, admittedly an important part of the topic.

for excel, Excel 2002 VBA Programmers Reference
by Rob Bovey, Stephen Bullen, John Green, Robert Rosenberg is very good and i don't even have excel 2002.

for the object model, i have the same problem - haven't found my way around them yet. i am thinking of buying some object model software to help (as the ms object browser is not the most help):

http://www.romanpress.com/Browser/OBDescription.htm.

it has a proper expandible hierarchy display and is easy to use, if the trial version is anything to go by.

 

[Loomah]

I personally use O'Reilly's "VB & VBA IN A NUTSHELL" as main programming reference. Covers VB6 and is rather helpful.

As for object models they are available in online help files. I also aquired a book that covers object model at a basic level but I can't even remember the publisher at the mo!

;-) If a man says something and there are no women there to hear him, is he still wrong?

 

[SBendBuckeye]

Thanks all. It was a killer week. Appreciate the feedback!

Have a great weekend!