A comprehensive guide to gaining a 360-degree overview of the VBA programming language and learning how to build your own programs for automating routine tasks Key Features Extend the capabilities of Excel and other Office applications with the help of Microsoft VBA Take your Excel programming skills to the next level by creating custom applications with dialogue boxes and the range object Automate repetitive and monotonous office work with VBA Excel programming Book DescriptionVisual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a programming language developed by Microsoft to automate tasks in MS Office applications. This book will help you to focus on the essential aspects of your role by automating mundane tasks in Excel and other Office applications. With comprehensive coverage of VBA delivered in the form of practice problems and bite-sized recipes, this book will help you to hit the ground running. Unlike most books that assume prior programming experience, this book starts with the fundamentals and gradually progresses to solving bigger problems. You'll start by becoming familiar with VBA so that you can start recording macros right away. With this foundation in place, you'll advance to using the full capabilities of the language as you apply loops, functions, and custom dialog boxes to design your own automation programs. You'll also get to grips with embedded macros and other advanced tools to enhance productivity and explore topics relating to app performance and security. Throughout this VBA book, you'll cover multiple practice projects in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint while exploring tips and best practices to hone your skills. By the end of this book, you'll have developed the skills you need to use VBA to create your own programs that control MS Office applications. What you will learn Understand the VBA programming language's role in the context of the MS Office suite Discover various aspects of VBA programming such as its terminology, syntax, procedures, functions, and forms Investigate the elements, features, and characteristics of the VBA Editor to write and edit custom scripts Automate Excel sheets with the help of ranges Explore error handling and debugging techniques to catch bugs in your programs Create and use custom dialog boxes to collect data from users Customize and extend Office apps such as Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Who this book is forThis book is for experienced Excel users, business analysts, finance professionals, and business users looking to boost their productivity by learning VBA programming to automate repetitive, tedious, or complex tasks. No prior programming experience is required to get started with this book.

Become a professional photo editor and bring your ideas to life with Photoshop Elements 2019 Key Features Improve your pictures with easy-to-follow techniques that help you make simple, fast and effective edits Understand how to animate and add multiple layers to your images Master the Photoshop Elements user interface (UI) with real-life examples Book DescriptionAdobe Photoshop Elements is a raster graphics editor for entry-level photographers, image editors, and hobbyists. Though it shares many of Photoshop CC's high-end features, it also boasts a significant number of simple to use, yet highly effective tools not found at the professional level. This book presents the complexities of image editing in easy-to-follow, bite-sized chunks, allowing you to quickly recognize the editing challenge, and helps you to identify the tools and techniques required to make improvements, and to apply those techniques quickly and efficiently. You will start by learning how to import, organize, manage, edit, and use your pictures in a format that's designed for creative photography projects. Going further, you'll discover how to fix a wide range of photographic problems based on the book's extensive repertoire of commonly applied solutions. You'll be escorted through a wide range of common processes that include applying artistic effects to creative projects, custom image makeovers, processing images for social media, and other file export methods. Towards the end of the book, you will understand what the most important tools and features actually do in Photoshop Elements, answering the often-asked question; What, when, and where would you use these features in a precise and practical way. What you will learn Understand the latest Photoshop tools to add life to your photos Add graphic elements to any composition, photograph, or illustration Tackle challenges in editing multi-layered images for your photography projects Develop illustrative skills with Photoshop Elements' variety of drawing tools Understand techniques for professional photo retouching Work with online and local templates to create calendars, greeting cards, and other projects Who this book is forThis book is for photographers, creative professionals, and individuals who want to master image editing for publishing, press, and web formats with Adobe's Photoshop Elements. Professionals who are looking to become accomplished image retouchers will also find the book helpful. Photography skills along with basic photo editing knowledge will be useful, but not necessary.

Office 365 is Microsoft's cloud hosted service that effectively provides Microsoft Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, OneDrive Pro and Yammer to enterprises on a monthly fee basis. Instead of organizations having to setup, configure, patch, upgrade, update, and backup systems, Microsoft takes care of all of the "backend" server tasks. This book was written by world renowned strategy and technology experts Rand Morimoto and Guy Yardeni who have worked with various hosted cloud providers including Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Box, Dropbox, and Amazon for years. The content of this book goes through the most common questions by organizations looking to choose Microsoft Office 365 for their enterprise, and Rand and Guy provide real world answers to these questions based on their hands-on day to day experience with Office 365.

Rural diners used to post signs promising "Sudden Service." Some probably still do. This book is intended to offer much the same thing: quick access to help you get an immediate job done using iWork for the iPad. You can read it end to end. But you'll often find it more useful as a handy reference to help you get the most from the iPad versions of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. In fact, you can carry this book in electronic form, right on the iPad itself. Check the Contents for the job you need to do; then, you can jump directly to that section. Cross-references lead you to other helpful information. Working with the iPad can be an interesting, productive experience. Enjoy.