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Acknowledgments
plan for a very special Kinkade Christmas. And while I’m on the subject, thanks to Jim Kloss, for his suc-
cessful effort to make Whole Wheat Radio so bad that I had no desire to tune in and get distracted while
writing this book. On a similar note, I’m grateful to Esther Golton, for not releasing her long-awaited CD
while I was working on this book. It’s likely that I’ll be able to use this same acknowledgment when I write
the Excel 2010 Bible.
I don’t really want to, but legal pressure forces me to acknowledge the contributions of Toad, whose life I
saved during the war — and then lived to regret it. I also thank Mrs. Toad, not because she actually did
anything, but because it’s very unlikely that she will be mentioned in any other Excel 2007 books, and she
might buy a copy if she sees her name here.
I’d also like to acknowledge Alison Young, for being generally awesome. Zach Fraile also deserves special
recognition for his key role in seeing me through the early stages of ribbon UI crisis. Thanks also go out to
Mark Coles, who showed his wife how to do a household budget in Excel, rather than writing it like a
story in Notepad. And, of course, I’d like to thank Joe Bardi for being Joe Bardi. But not as much as I’d like
to thank Joshua O’Keefe, who really knows how to move sides of beef.
I bow down to 12-Stringer, whose proclivity, propensity, and capacity for single malt Scotch rivals my own,
and whose flummoxing right-hand technique on 12-string guitar was so flabbergasting that I was inspired
to devote life to learning an instrument with seven fewer strings.
This book, of course, never would have come to fruition without the awesome Austin music from Casey.
I’d like to thank The One True Dan Tripp for agreeing to buy this book because his name is in this section.
I’m certain I should thank mare, but I can’t find the note that explains what I have to thank him/her/it for.
In any case, thanks! And that also goes to moioci, for general intrepidity. Thanks are also due to The
Necklace Lady for making sure everyone can hang their name badge on a sparkle — something that’s
vitally important in this day and age.
I also appreciate Mr. Mike, for teaching me to play chess. His crushing victory over his 7-year old opponent
was truly inspirational. I would also like to thank Victor Conte and his peeps at BALCO. And special
thanks to Dan and Spencer for remaining faithful to the Padres, even when they shouldn’t have been.
It would be a grievous error to overlook Andrew Methmann, who has several J-Walk books floating
around his office, and has promised to add to the collection if he finds his name here. I hereby dedicate
11.5 pages of this book to Kirk. In this world woven of illusions and insubstantial impressions, I always
wonder how he can stand me and my books — and, of course, the blog.
I’d like to inform Mary — who keeps telling me that putting things/people in boxes is wrong, wrong,
wrong — to go soak her head. Putting things in boxes is what Excel is about. So there. Now, back to the
acknowledgments. I thank Tina, for her desire to get a raise by learning all she can about Excel, and for
dazzling her boss and coworkers with material that she lifts directly from my books. And I must mention
Raymond Allan, one of thousands of people who can’t remember the password for Power Utility Pak and
apologize to me via e-mail.
Thanks to Ruth Maher in Ireland, who figured out the secret to using Excel. She always takes her Excel
with a full pint of Guinness. I must also thank Soren Bo Christensen from Denmark, for being the only
Dane interested in Excel 2007 (or so he claims). But most of all, I thank Gareth Forster in England, for
being over there and not here. And least but certainly not last, I pay tribute to Lindsay, for his riveting links
and his unflappable insistence on bifurcating them. I almost forgot. Thanks to Miss Cellania for being so
miscellaneous.
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