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Access and Outlook are a bit different from the other Office applications. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are primarily end-user applications. You use them to generate some kind of document (text file, workbook, or slide presentation), and that’s that. You can write VBA macros to automate things for yourself or for other users (that’s what this book is all about, after all), but you are not really intended to write a complete application by using Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. For example, you could build UserForms that let a user fill in expense report data in PowerPoint and then automatically print them. That would certainly work, but it’s not really the main purpose of PowerPoint. Its main purpose is to create presentations.
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Stephens, R. (2003). Access. In: Microsoft Office Programming: A Guide for Experienced Developers. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0795-5_10
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