Praise for
Professional Excel Development, Second Edition
“As Excel applications become more complex and the Windows development platform
more powerful, Excel developers need books like this to help them evolve their solutions
to the next level of sophistication. Professional Excel Development is a book for devel-
opers who want to build powerful, state-of-the-art Excel applications using the latest
Microsoft technologies.”
—Gabhan Berry, Program Manager, Excel Programmability, Microsoft
“The first edition of Professional Excel Development is my most-consulted and most-
recommended book on Office development. The second edition expands both the depth
and range. It shines because it takes every issue one step further than you expect. The
book relies on the authors’ current, real-world experience to cover not only how a feature
works, but also the practical implications of using it in professional work.”
—Shauna Kelly, Director, Thendara Green
“This book illustrates techniques that will result in well-designed, robust, and maintainable
Excel-based applications. The authors’ advice comes from decades of solid experience of
designing and building applications. The practicality of the methods is well illustrated by
the example timesheet application that is developed step-by-step through the book.
Every serious Excel developer should read this and learn from it. I did.”
—Bill Manville, Application Developer, Bill Manville Associates
“This book explains difficult concepts in detail. The authors provide more than one
method for complex development topics, along with the advantages and disadvantages of
using the various methods described. They have my applause for the incorporation of
development best practices.”
—Beth Melton, Independent Contractor and Microsoft Office MVP
“Professional Excel Development is THE book for the serious Excel developer. It reaches
far beyond object models and worksheet layouts and code syntax, to the inner workings of
a professional developer’s mind. The book covers Excel in great depth, but more impor-
tant it explores the thought processes and logistics behind successful Excel development.”
—Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP and President of Peltier Technical Services, Inc.
“The authors have done what I deemed impossible: improve a book that I already
considered the best book ever on Excel development!”
—Jan Karel Pieterse, Excel MVP and owner of www.jkp-ads.com
