Synopses & Reviews
This book helps students learn to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA ? a programming environment within Microsoft« Office) as a means to automate methods and models and create special applications. With VBA, sophisticated management science techniques work behind a clean and simple interface. Gaining valuable experience, students will develop applications that are user friendly and tailored to a specific problem while the "number crunching" takes place behind the scenes of Microsoft« Excel«.
Synopsis
With PKG VBA FOR MODELERS + PAC, you can become an Excel? power user. The text helps the reader learn VBA to automate common spreadsheet tasks, as well as to create user-friendly management science applications.
Synopsis
Learn more effective modeling techniques than ever before! VBA FOR MODELERS: DEVELOPING DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS USING MICROSOFT EXCEL shows you the easy way to automate methods and models and create special applications. You'll learn sophisticated techniques through a simple and clean interface, so there's no more long nights of trying to make it work. And because it works with Microsoft Excel, you'll be saving time while the program crunches all the numbers.
About the Author
S. Christian Albright received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Stanford in 1968 and his Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford in 1972. Since then, he has been teaching in the Operations and Decision Technologies Department in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He has taught courses in management science, computer simulation, and statistics to all levels of business students: undergraduates, MBAs, and doctoral students. He has published over twenty articles in leading operations research journals in the area of applied probability, and he has authored other successful South-Western titles, including DATA ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING, DATA ANALYSIS FOR MANAGERS, PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, and SPREADSHEET MODELING AND APPLICATIONS. His current interest is in spreadsheet modeling, including development of VBA applications in Excel?.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to VBA Development In Excel. 2. The Excel Object Model. 3. The Visual Basic Editor. 4. Recording Macros. 5. Getting Started With VBA. 6. Working with Ranges. 7. Control Logic and Loops. 8. Working with Other Excel Objects. 9. Arrays. 10. More on Variables and Subroutines. 11. User Forms. 12. Error Handling. 13. Working with Files And Folders. 14. Importing Data into Excel from a Database. 15. Working with Pivot Tables. 16. Working with Menus and Toolbars. 17. Automating Solver and Other Add-Ins. 18. Basic Ideas for Application Development with VBA. 19. A Blending Application. 20. A Product Mix Application. 21. An Employee-Scheduling Application. 22. A Production-Planning Application. 23. A Logistics Application. 24. A Stock-Trading Simulation Application. 25. A Capital-Budgeting Application. 26. A Regression Application. 27. An Exponential Utility Application. 28. A Queueing Simulation Application. 29. An Option-Pricing Application. 30. An Application for Finding Betas of Stocks. 31. A Portfolio Optimization Application. 32. A Data Envelopment Analysis Application. 33. An AHP Application for Choosing a Job. 34. A Poker Simulation Application.