INTENSE!:

"It has been my experience that introductory programming books (and, sadly, most trade computer books) tend to do a great deal of handholding. They cover concepts at a very slow pace by padding them heavily with overblown examples and irrelevant anecdotes that only the author could conceivably find amusing, making it difficult to ferret out the facts. Frankly, I find such unprofessionalism incredibly infuriating. In my opinion, it does the reader a great disservice to take perhaps 400 pages of information and pad it with another 600 pages of junk."

variables are declared with "dim" as in:

Dim Name AsString
Name = CharlesBroskoski

function declaration:

Public Function AddOne(Value As Integer) As Integer 
   AddOne = Value + 1 
End Function 

Set rng2 = Nothing 

when something happens, it is called an "event"

With Range("a1:b4, d2:e2") 
   .Interior.Color = RGB(196, 196, 196) 
   With .Borders(xlEdgeBottom) 
      .Weight = xlThick 
      .Color = RGB(255, 0, 0) 
   End With 
End With 

Enum XlLineStyle 
   xlLineStyleNone = -4142 
   xlDouble = -4119 
   xlDot = -4118 
   xlDash = -4115 
   xlContinuous = 1 
   xlDashDot = 4 
   xlDashDotDot = 5 
   xlSlantDashDot = 13 
End Enum 

Enum XlPattern 
   xlPatternVertical = -4166 
   xlPatternUp = -4162 
   xlPatternNone = -4142 
   xlPatternHorizontal = -4128 
   xlPatternGray75 = -4126 
   xlPatternGray50 = -4125 
   xlPatternGray25 = -4124 
   xlPatternDown = -4121 
   xlPatternAutomatic = -4105 
   xlPatternSolid = 1 
   xlPatternChecker = 9 
   xlPatternSemiGray75 = 10 
   xlPatternLightHorizontal = 11 
   xlPatternLightVertical = 12 
   xlPatternLightDown = 13 
   xlPatternLightUp = 14 
   xlPatternGrid = 15 
   xlPatternCrissCross = 16 
   xlPatternGray16 = 17 
xlPatternGray8 = 18 
End Enum 

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