Developing Applications with Microsoft Office

Strategies for Designing, Developing, and Delivering Custom Business
Solutions Using Microsoft Office

Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word are more than just
best-of-breed applications--they're strong development tools. DEVELOPING
APPLICATIONS WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE from Microsoft Press shows how to use
the powerful development features of Office to build mission-critical
applications that are easier to use, maintain, and modify than those built
with conventional development tools.

Author Christine Solomon draws on her years of experience as a consultant
to Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions to show how the
built-in development capabilities of the Office applications can be used
to build flexible, industrial-strength, custom applications. With this
book as their guide, a broad range of developers, IS professionals, power
users, and managers will be able to deliver high-powered solutions
designed to meet just about any computing challenge.

The Advantages of Microsoft Office Development Tools

Access Basic, WordBasic, and Visual Basic for Applications have matured
into state-of-the-art programming languages with the structure and speed
necessary to support powerful business applications. By using these tools
to quickly and efficiently build, maintain, and update applications with
Office, businesses can save time and money. And because so many companies
are standardizing on Office, many users will already be familiar with the
interface.

Other advantages of using Office development tools include:

* Speeding up the development process by enhancing and extending
  existing desktop applications instead of starting from scratch
* Customizing applications to meet users' specific needs and refine
  applications easily, based on user feedback
* Reducing the amount of resources required to train and support users
  by creating applications that are familiar and easy to use
* Providing users with custom, job-specific tools that allow them to
  retrieve, analyze, and publish data on their own

In Part One of DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE, Solomon
offers strategies for developing applications in a corporate environment
and discusses the issues involved. She presents case studies to show how
Office-based solutions are being put to work across corporate America. She
also explains how to start using tools such as OLE automation, DDE, ODBC,
and even the Windows API to help build custom business applications.

Part Two is a comprehensive "how to" section for developing applications
with Office, complete with valuable sample applications that help readers
see custom Office-based applications in action.

Part Three is the Professional's Handbook, a handy reference section for
planning training, documentation, and support. The inside information in
this part of the book can't be found anywhere else.

Appendixes list additional sources of information about developing business
applications with Office and the Visual Basic programming system and
include a concise primer on programming in Basic. A glossary makes it easy
to look up important terms, and an expanded table of contents along with a
comprehensive index helps readers quickly find information on any topic in
the book.

One 3.5-inch disk containing all the source code files necessary to create
the sample applications in the book is included. Microsoft Office
Professional Edition version 4.3 is required.

DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE is the only reference that
Office users need to start creating professional-quality data-access and
decision-making tools with Office.

Christine Solomon is a director at Micro Modeling Associates, Inc., a
consulting firm that provides solutions based on Microsoft Windows to
Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions. Solomon pioneered new
techniques for creating Office-based publishing and presentation systems
using such tools as Excel, Word, Visual Basic, and Windows Help. She is a
speaker at dozens of seminars and conferences across North America every
year.

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Developing Applications with Microsoft Office
by Christine Solomon
600 pages, one 3.5-inch disk, $39.95
ISBN: 1-55615-665-0
Pub. Date: February 15,1995

Microsoft Press, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399
206-882-8080,  800-MSPRESS

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