Book excerpt: Teach yourself how to use Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) to take command of Microsoft Excel Version 2002. Choose your own best starting point in this self-paced guide to learn how to automate spreadsheets, write your own functions and procedures, customize menus and toolbars, and more. Easy-to-follow lessons with real-world scenarios and examples show you exactly how to maximize the built-in programming power in Microsoft Excel 2002. Numerous screenshots and a CD full of practice files help you master step-by-step programming procedures. Find out how to create custom solutions with Microsoft Excel and this book—then keep it nearby as an ongoing desktop reference to VBA functions and features. Learn at your own pace how to: Use macros to automate simple and complex tasks Manipulate workbooks and worksheets Explore range objects Work with graphical objects Build and manipulate PivotTable® objects Create loops and conditional statements with Visual Basic Use dialog box controls on worksheets Create and use custom functions and handle macro errors Create custom toolbar buttons, menu commands, command buttons, event handlers, and dialog boxes A Note Regarding the CD or DVD The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to [email protected].