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Acknowledgments

We'll start by thanking everyone who helped research, write, test, and refine our material. We began as a team of two Excel and one Access MVPs, and later recruited Oliver Stohr, Access MVP, to write the Access deployment section. We send a tremendous note of appreciation to Oli for stepping up and sharing his expertise. In addition, because the book covers three, not just two applications, we also enlisted the expertise of two Word MVPs. Therefore, we send a special thanks to Tony Jollans, for always responding to our inquiries and assisting whenever we asked, and to Cindy Meister, for writing the macro to update all the document fields. But writing is just the first stage in the journey. We relied on our remarkable team of technical editors, Jeff Boyce (Access MVP) and Nick Hodge (Excel MVP), to check and challenge our writing. They each added a particular expertise to the book. Jeff's incessant questions may have threatened to drive us crazy, but they ensured that we provided ample background when introducing new material so that users of any level could understand and work through the examples. Nick's contributions went far above and beyond his role. His fingerprints are all over the book, and it truly would not be what it is without him.

Nor would we have this book if it weren't for the great people at Wiley. We had the great fortune of working with Tom Dinse as our development editor. In addition to making sure that our material was consistent, properly sequenced, ...