Acknowledgments

This book is the result of the combined efforts of a team of skilled professionals whose work we trust and admire and whose friendship we value highly. Kari Fera and Kat Marriner, our talented typographers, proved to us once again that they’re the best in the business. They collaborated graciously on this, our 15th book, refining and producing the graphics, laying out the complex design, and wrestling with problems ranging from limited space to logical arrangement of numbered steps. We sincerely appreciate their excellent work. Our dear friend Alice Copp Smith has helped us improve every one of the books we’ve written. Alice does so much more than proofread and copyedit: Her gentle and witty chiding on countless yellow sticky notes makes us groan (and laugh) but teaches us to write better and, always, to get rid of those danglers! And we are fortunate indeed to be able to work with indexer par excellence Jan Wright, whose index reveals in microcosm the soul of the book. We thank this dedicated and hardworking team for their exceptional work and their unwavering good humor in the face of grueling deadlines.

We also thank Jim Boyce and Beth Sheresh for writing the Outlook sections, and Curt Frye for writing the Access section. Thanks also to the other people who worked on these three sections: Joell Smith-Borne (technical editor/copyeditor/proofreader); Kelly Henthorne (copyeditor/proofreader); Chris Pichereau (technical editor); and, especially, Debbie Berman (compositor/layout artist), who helped greatly with the coordination and integration of these sections.

At Microsoft Press we thank Lucinda Rowley and Juliana Aldous Atkinson for asking us to write this book, and we thank Kathleen Atkins for her valuable insight and helpful suggestions. Thanks also to Jim Kramer, Sandra Haynes, Victoria Thulman, Bill Teel, and Sally Stickney.

We also thank, in spirit, Oscar Tschirky, longtime maître d’hôtel at The Waldorf (now The Waldorf-Astoria) in New York City, whose book The Cook Book by “Oscar” of The Waldorf, first published in 1896, is a family heirloom and the source of the sample text in many of our screen shots.

On the home front, we thank our beautiful grandchild, Zuzu, for love, laughter, and many hours of Monopoly, at which she routinely beats both of us and winds up with more money than the bank.

Last but not least, we thank each other—for everything.