About the Authors

Laurie Ulrich Fuller has been writing about and teaching people to use Microsoft Office for more than 20 years. She’s been there through every new version of Access as Office has evolved to meet the needs of users from all walks of life — from individuals to huge corporations, from growing businesses to non-profit organizations.

In the meantime, Laurie has personally trained more than 20,000 people to make better, more creative use of their computers, has written and co-written 30+ nationally published books on computers and software — including several titles on Microsoft Office. In the last few years, she’s also created several online training courses, teaching online students to use Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop.

Laurie’s own firm, Limehat & Company, offers training and educational materials as well as graphic design, marketing, promotions, and web-development services. She invites you to contact her with your Office-related questions at [email protected] and to visit her website at www.limehat.com.

Ken Cook has built and managed a successful computer consulting business (now called Cook Software Solutions, LLC) since 1990. He began as a trainer — training numerous users (too many to count!) on a variety of software packages — specializing in Microsoft Office. Currently he “dabbles in training” (specializing in online synchronous training), but his main focus is creating expert Microsoft Office solutions and Microsoft Access database solutions for Fortune 500 and small business clients.

Ken is also a published author on Microsoft Excel, having contributed chapters on macros and VBA to Special Edition: Using Excel 2000 and Special Edition: Using Excel 2002 published by Que. Ken also contributed Microsoft Access chapters to the book How to Do Everything with Office XP published by Osborne and coauthored the previous edition of this book: Access 2010 For Dummies published by Wiley.

Prior to his career in computers, Ken was a Product Manager for Prince Manufacturing, Inc. He is a graduate of Syracuse University with a bachelor’s degree in Marketing. He can be contacted through his website (www.kcookpcbiz.com) or by email (mailto:[email protected]).

Publisher’s Acknowledgments

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Publisher: Andy Cummings

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