VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) is the embedded programming language in the Microsoft Office 2000 suite of applications. VBA provides a complete integrated development environment (IDE) that allows for document automation, the process of using an automated template for creating documents. Learn Word 2000 VBA Document Automation is for those advanced users of Word 2000 who are looking to automate the task of preparing documents and programmers who are unfamiliar with document automation and the Word object model. Among the topics covered are recording macros, creating automated templates, formatting and manipulating files using Word, and building documents dynamically. The companion CD-ROM contains all the files necessary to reproduce the examples in the book.