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Lee Hudspeth	Lee Hudspeth is one of the two co-founders of PRIME Consulting Group, Inc. (www.primeconsulting.com), an organization that provides consulting, development, training, and add-ins for Microsoft Office and Windows, and that hosts and develops Web sites. His background is in operations research, financial analysis, and marketing analysis (formerly with Unocal Corp.). He has co-authored a number of books on Office, including the Office Annoyances series (Word 97, Excel 97, Outlook, and Office 97 Annoyances), The Underground Guide to Microsoft Office, OLE, and VBA and The Underground Guide to Excel 5.0 for Windows. He is a Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Professional), co-author of the Microsoft course on application development using WordBasic, and a certified Microsoft trainer in Visual Basic and WordBasic. Along with other PRIME Consulting staff, Lee has developed innumerable lines of VB, VBA, and WordBasic code for the firm's numerous Office add-ins (PRIME for Excel and PRIME for Word), going way back to Word 2.0. He is presently a Senior Contributing Editor for Office Computing magazine (circulation 1,000,000+) and regular contributor to PC/Computing magazine.
T. J. Lee	T. J. Lee, one of the founders of PRIME Consulting Group, has a background as a Certified Public Accountant and has done computer and management consulting for years (he's older than he looks). He has co-authored several books on Office, including the Office Annoyances series (Word 97, Excel 97, Outlook, and Office 97 Annoyances), The Underground Guide to Microsoft Excel 5 and The Underground Guide to Microsoft Office, OLE and VBA. T.J. is a certified Microsoft trainer. He has written countless courseware packages and manuals, co-authored the Microsoft Education Services course on Developing Applications in Word, and taught and lectured for thousands of developers and end users. Along with Lee Hudspeth he was co-Editor-In-Chief for Woody's Underground Office newsletter, winning the Computer Press Association's 1997 Best Overall Newsletter award. And is a regular contributor to PC/Computing magazine (Ziff-Davis).
Woody Leonhard	In addition to the current Office Annoyances series (Word 97, Excel 97, Outlook, and Office 97 Annoyances), Woody Leonhard's books include Windows 3.1 Programming for Mere Mortals, The Underground Guide to Word for Windows, The Hacker's Guide to Word for Windows, The Mother of All Windows Books, The Mother of All PC Books, The Mother of All Windows 95 Books, and several others. He was Series Editor for Addison-Wesley's Underground Guides (11 books) and Addison-Wesley's Hacker's Guides (5 books). Along with Jim and Lee he published a widely acclaimed monthly hardcopy newsletter based on the Underground series called Woody's Underground Office, a.k.a. WUON. (This newsletter won the Computer Press Association's 1997 Best Overall Newsletter award.) He's a Contributing Editor at PC/Computing (circulation 1,000,000+). Woody's software company, Pinecliffe International, makes WOPR, Woody's Office POWER Pack, "The #1 Enhancement to Microsoft Office," to which Jim and Lee are among the co-developers. Woody's a Tibetan human rights activist and co-founder of the Tibetan Children's Fund and lives on top of a mountain in Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado.