Acknowledgments

Thanks to Tracy Syrstad for being a great coauthor and for doing a great job of managing all the consulting projects at MrExcel.com.

Bob Umlas is the smartest Excel guy I know and is an awesome technical editor. At Pearson, Loretta Yates is an excellent acquisitions editor.

Along the way, I’ve learned a lot about VBA programming from the awesome community at the MrExcel.com message board. VoG, Richard Schollar, and Jon von der Heyden all stand out as having contributed posts that led to ideas in this book. Thanks to Pam Gensel for Excel macro lesson #1. Mala Singh taught me about creating charts in VBA, and Oliver Holloway brought me up to speed with accessing SQL Server. Scott Ruble and Robin Wakefield at Microsoft helped with the charting chapter. And I give a tip of the cap to JWalk for that HWND trick.

At MrExcel.com, thanks to Barb Jelen, Wei Jiang, Tracy Syrstad, Tyler Nash, and Scott Pierson.

My family was incredibly supportive during this time. Thanks to Zeke Jelen, Dom Grossi, and Mary Ellen Jelen.

—Bill

Juan Pablo Gonzalez Ruiz is a great programmer, and I really appreciate his time and patience showing me new ways to write better programs.

Thank you to all the moderators at the MrExcel forum who keep the board organized, despite the best efforts of the spammers.

Programming is a constant learning experience, and I really appreciate the clients who have encouraged me to program outside my comfort zone so that my skills and knowledge have expanded.

And last, but not least, thanks to Bill Jelen. His site, MrExcel.com, is a place where thousands come for help. It’s also a place where I, and others like me, have an opportunity to learn from and assist others.

—Tracy