Friday babble and a book request

It's Friday! Woo!

Tomorrow I am destined for the bright lights and big bookshops of London on a day trip with Da :-) Intend to hit Waterstones in Picadilly and Foyles with lots of booktokens. If anyone has any recommendations...

*g*

I've got a list already of things that I'll be looking for :-)

For the Naomi Novik fans on my f-list, she's been nominated for the Hugo Best Novel and the John Campbell award, both for Temeraire. Woo! For the non-fans - why haven't you tried her books yet? ;-)

The important part of this post is a book recommendation request with a technical slant. Many of you may know than I have to use VBA extensively in my job (yes, yes, Microcrap sucks...) and we currently have no reference text except for my mad Googling skilz (TM). Obviously this isn't helpful for the newbies or for me when I can't get a search term that will actually provide useful results. So the boss has finally agreed to buy us a couple of reference texts for the department provided I can find some good ones.

Any suggestions? We mainly use VBA for Excel, so something with a focus on that would be most useful, but we also automate Outlook things from Excel and I'd like to see whether we can do some PowerPoint automation as well so it would be useful if some of that was covered. I'm not looking for a Learn in 24 Hours kind of thing, more of a reference that I can flick through when trying to figure out how to do the latest crazy thing I've been asked for.

With so many techies on my f-list, surely one of you has had to deal with VBA and can suggest something for me to look at?

Le sigh

When the travel girl on the radio begins her bulletin with, "Don't go anywhere in a car, on a road, in this country this evening" you know it's going to be bad.

And it was.

Urk.

Large glass of wine and lots of food needed.