This document is intended as an introductory guide to the development of customised applications using Microsoft Office 97 or Office 2000. We concentrate on using the Excel application, although the general skills gained are equally applicable to the other Office applications. It is not an exhaustive review of all of the features of these two packages - there are too many! I hope, however, to be able to describe the essential features of programming in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and to