| Microsoft Office 2000/Visual Basic Programmer's Guide | |
Office developers are accustomed to using Visual Basic Editor to add VBA code to their Office documents. Now that Office documents support HTML and can be viewed in a Web browser, developers need some way to programmatically work with the objects and script that make up an Office document designed to be displayed on the Web. Access, Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, and Word now support the Microsoft Script Editor. The Script Editor is a powerful new integrated development environment designed to let developers easily work with Office documents as Web pages. The Script Editor allows you to work with HTML in a document, add script, add ActiveX and HTML intrinsic controls, and view the results as if the document were displayed in the browser.
For Office developers who have not worked with Web pages extensively, this book provides an overview of what you need to know about how to work with the Script Editor. In addition, it covers scripting in Office documents, an overview of the DHTML object model, and manipulating objects using script. There is also an introduction to cascading style sheets (.css files), scriptlets, and behaviors — in short, a discussion crafted specifically to help Office developers understand the new Internet tools and technologies in Office 2000.