My Office® 2016

Acknowledgments

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

—William Safire

In the fast-paced world of computer book writing, where deadlines come whooshing at you at alarming speeds and with dismaying regularity, rereading a manuscript is a luxury reserved only for those who have figured out how to live a 36-hour day. Fortunately, every computer book does get reread—not once, not twice, but many times. I speak, of course, not of the diligence of this book’s author but of the yeoman work done by this book’s many and various editors, those sharp-eyed, red-pencil-wielding worthies whose job it is to make a book’s author look good. Near the front of the book you find a ...