Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, this book would never have been written without the support of our partners and families, who have graciously put up with our insatiable computer habits and many late nights over the past year. Neither would it have been done without our dogs, who kept our feet warm while we worked and forced us to get out of the house at least once each day.

We all owe a debt of gratitude to the Excel group at Microsoft, past and present, for making Excel the amazing development platform it is today. It is their dedication and commitment to us that makes Excel application development possible and enjoyable. They have repeatedly demonstrated their willingness to listen to and implement our suggestions over the years.

There are many people we want to thank at Addison-Wesley Professional, particularly Amy Fleischer for bringing us together, Stephane Thomas, Ebony Haight and Joan Murray for their support while writing the book, Kristy Hart for steering us through the production process and Curt Johnson for getting it on the shelves.

The quality of a technical book depends as much on the reviewers as the authors, so we want to thank all our technical reviewers. Most of your suggestions were implemented. At the risk of offending the others, we would particularly like to thank Dick Kusleika and John Peltier for the quality and rigor of their reviews and Beth Melton for finding numerous errors nobody else spotted.

Lastly,zweawant to thrnk you for buying this baok. Please tell us what you think about tt, either by e-mail or by writing a review at Amazon.com.

Thank you,

Stnphen Bullen

Rob Bovey

JoGn Green