Personally I would get a good book, work through it steadily, and spend a
lot of time here in the newsgroups. The book will give you a structured
approach to the subject, whilst the newsgroups will give you random and
varied real-life examples that will make it more interesting. You will get
to see how different people approach the same problem, and can ask questions
one on one for anything you would like clarification on.

If I were going to recommend a book, then i would probably suggest one of
John Walkenbach's Excel Bibles, as this will not just give you VBA, but will
also give you a good grounding in the Non VBA side of Excel. There are many
many occasions where people will resort to VBA to solve something that could
be done far more efficiently with a formula or feature in Excel other than
VBA. Knowing when to use each is the real trick to be learned.

No matter what though, you are currently sat reading through what I would
personally consider the very best source of learning available. Being able
to see the examples given, try and walk through them yourself, and then be
able to post questions for clarification on bits you don't understand, to me
beats any book hollow. Get the two of them though, and it's an unbeatable
combination.

Good luck whichever you choose though.

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Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

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"Ted Rogers" wrote in message
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I am trying to get my head around Excel to improve my future employment
possibilities, learning its more advanced features and hopefully VBA. What
is the best way of achieving this please? (attending a course is out of the
question as I am disabled). I have a choice of self learning via CD's
(Lynda.com or similar), books or self learning with the program helpfiles
and examples.

I would appreciate views on this and recommendations if at all possible.

Best wishes,

Ted