Programming for Office Applications

This course is designed to provide students with the skills to automate and extend Office applications by learning macros, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming, and XML data interfacing. This course will cover manipulating the underlying objects of the different office applications. It will explain how event handling within VBA can be used to automate the handling of office documents. It will show how to use XML to transfer information between applications on both the local and remote computers flexibly. NOTE: Familiarity with MS Word and MS Access is recommended.