Microsoft’s EXCEL adds function to standard spreadsheet options and provides color displays and multitasking abilities for corporate data processing. Macros are small programs one can design to turn EXCEL’s worksheets into full-featured, special-purpose computer programs. These macros use the computer command language built into the EXCEL package. These commands are written on a macro sheet which looks like a standard EXCEL worksheet with rows and columns.
The book is divided into nine chapters:
(1) Understanding Excel: a review of commands
(2) Macros and macro sheets
(3) Planning and development
(4) The recorder
(5) Command macros
(6) Function macros
(7) Data management
(8) Menus
(9) Charts
Annaloro’s work is very comprehensive. This book would be a good text in a course devoted entirely to this subject. It might not be as handy as a reference work. The chapters are not self-sufficient or easy to reference. Rather, a thorough reading of the book would make one proficient in the development of macros and the use of EXCEL. In that sense alone, this volume is well worth reading.
