1. An Introduction to Office Programming

Why Office Programming?

The family of Office 2007 applications covered by this book (Excel 2007, Word 2007, and Outlook 2007) represents an attractive platform on which to build solutions. You can customize and extend Office applications by developing solutions against their object models. By building a solution using the Office system, you can reuse some of the most feature-rich and popular applications available. A solution that analyzes or displays data can take advantage of the formatting, charting, calculation, and analysis features of Excel. A solution that creates documents can use the capability of Word to generate, format, and print documents. A solution that manipulates business information can ...

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