A Few Useful Microsoft Excel Resources

Microsoft Web Pages

• Microsoft Excel Home Page
• Microsoft Excel Knowledgebase: The first place to look to get your questions answered
• Microsoft Office Developer Forum Excel Home Page
• Changes to Excel 97 VBA. Take a look. There have been some major changes...

Unofficial Excel Pages

• Alan's Excel Page
• Excel Spreadsheet Solutions
• The Spreadsheet Page
• Excel Help Page

Excel FAQ's

• Microsoft's FAQ Page for Excel 5.0
• Microsoft's FAQ Page for Excel 7.0
• Microsoft's FAQ Page for Excel 97
• The USENET newsgroup comp.apps.spreadsheets' FAQ pointer

Newsgroups

• Usenet's comp.apps.spreadsheets
  
• Microsoft's microsoft.public.excel.programming
  
• Microsoft's microsoft.public.excel.misc
  
• A list of all Microsoft newsgroups on Excel

Some Good Books on Excel VBA

• Excel Visual Basic for Applications, Step by Step , Reed Jacobson, Microsoft Press.
  A great hands-on tutorial for learning Excel VBA.
• Excel 5 Visual Basic for Applications Reference, Microsoft Press.
  Includes all the Objects, Properties, and Methods, ect. from the on-line help.
• Excel Developer's Kit, Microsoft Press.
  If you plan to creat DLL's for VB for Applications, develop cross-platform applications or context sensitive help, this is a good starting point.
• Developing Excel 95 Solutions with Visual Basic for Applications, Eric Well, Microsoft Press
  A great reference with sample code for some of the trickier problems you may come across.

Other Tools for Creating Your Excel Application

• WISE Installation System
  An easy to use installation utitility which builds professional looking self-extracting setup files. A handy wizard is included making it even easier.
• Visual Help Pro
  Develop your context senitive help files quickly and easily. Also creates glossary and index help topics.