Predlagaemaya kniga yavlyaetsya dopolnennym izdaniem knigi 2008 g., imeyushchey grif Dopushcheno Nauchno-metodicheskim sovetom po informatike pri Ministerstve obrazovaniya i nauki RF v kachestve uchebnogo posobiya po distsipline "Informatika" dlya studentov vysshikh uchebnykh zavedeniy. Rassmatrivayutsya elementy sredy razrabotki programm, a takzhe bazovye konstruktsii algoritmicheskikh yazykov Visual Basic i VBA (Visual Basic dlya prilozheniy). V kachestve pol'zovatel'skogo interfeysa programmy (makrosa) ispol'zuyutsya standartnye okna operatsionnoy sistemy Windows, tekstovye fayly, formy, tablitsa Excel. Rassmatrivaetsya takzhe vopros razrabotki pol'zovatel'skikh funktsiy Excel. Prodemonstrirovany priemy raboty s otladchikom programm, spravochnymi sistemami, makrorekorderom i lichnoy knigoy makrosov. Opyt programmirovaniya ne yavlyaetsya obyazatel'nym. Kniga orientirovana na prepodavateley informatiki i informatsionnykh tekhnologiy, studentov vuzov i kolledzhey, a takzhe na shirokiy krug chitateley, zhelayushchikh rasshirit' krug zadach, reshaemykh sredstvami tablichnogo protsessora Microsoft Office Excel 2007 - 2013.