Assuming a familiarity with Visual Basic and XML, this guide explains the key objects, methods, and properties available in Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook, then overviews the technologies that have been integrated with different versions of Office. The last section provides five example solutions for creating source records for a mail merge, copying data from Excel to PowerPoint chart datasheets, charting XML data, repurposing XML content, and applying saved InfoPath data.