Chris Grover is a veteran of the San Francisco Bay Area advertising and design community, having worked for over 25 years in print, video, and electronic media. He has been using and writing about computers from the day he first fired up his Kaypro II. Chris is the owner of Bolinas Road Creative (www.BolinasRoad.com), an agency that helps small businesses promote their products and services. He’s also the author of Office 2011 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual, Premiere Elements 8: The Missing Manual, Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual, Flash CS5: The Missing Manual, and Word 2007: The Missing Manual.
Nan Barber (editor) has been working on the Missing Manual series since its inception. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and various Apple products. Email: nanbarber@oreilly.com.
Kristen Borg (production editor) is a graduate of the publishing program at Emerson College. Now living in Boston, she originally hails from sunny Arizona, and considers New England winters an adequate trade for no longer finding scorpions in her hairdryer.
Carla Spoon (proofreader) is a freelance writer and copy editor. An avid runner, she works and feeds her tech gadget addiction from her home office in the shadow of Mount Rainier. Email: carla_spoon@comcast.net.
Ron Strauss (indexer) specializes in the indexing of information technology publications of all kinds. Ron is also an accomplished classical violist and lives in northern California with his wife and fellow indexer, Annie, and his miniature pinscher, Kanga.
Keith Gladstien (technical reviewer) is a prolific contributor to the Adobe Flash Forums who has been using Flash since version 4. He has a background in mathematics (PhD, Purdue) and medicine (MD, Yale), and has created hundreds of Flash applications for clients worldwide. Website: www.kglad.com.
Tina Spargo (technical reviewer), her husband (and professional musician) Ed, their preschooler Max, their two silly Spaniels, Parker (Clumber), and Piper (Sussex), all share time and space in their suburban Boston home. Tina juggles being an at-home mom with promoting and marketing Ed’s musical projects and freelancing as a virtual assistant. Tina has over 20 years’ experience supporting top-level executives in a variety of industries. Website: www.tinaspargo.com.
Thanks to all the pros on the Missing Manual team who brought this book to print or screen as the case may be. Nan Barber, my editor, has skillfully guided me through several of these projects. Her work is much appreciated. Thanks to Kristen Borg who helped coordinate the manuscript files flying back and forth and to Julie Keuren for her copy editing eagle eye. Once again, thanks to Tina Spargo and Keith Gladstien for the technical review. I’ve written over ten books now and I’m overdue with a couple of acknowledgements. First of all, thanks to my Mom and the many other writers in our family. What a great gift we’ve passed through the generations. While I’m at it, thanks to my sister who taught me how to read before I went to school. We still share books and our love of reading every day. As always, thanks and love to my wife, Joyce, who supports me in everything I do.
Missing Manuals are witty, superbly written guides to computer products that don’t come with printed manuals (which is just about all of them). Each book features a handcrafted index and cross-references to specific pages (not just chapters).
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FileMaker Pro 10: The Missing Manual by Susan Prosser and Geoff Coffey
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Flash CS5: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover
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iMovie ’11 & iDVD: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and Aaron Miller
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iPhone: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition by David Pogue
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iPhoto ’09: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
iPhoto ’11: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and J.D. Biersdorfer
iPod: The Missing Manual, Eighth Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer and David Pogue
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Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition by David Pogue
Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Microsoft Project 2007: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore
Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore
Motorola Xoom: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla
Netbooks: The Missing Manual by J.D. Biersdorfer
Office 2007: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover, Matthew MacDonald, and E.A. Vander Veer
Office 2010: The Missing Manual by Nancy Connor and Matthew MacDonald
Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual by Jim Elferdink
Office 2011 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover
Palm Pre: The Missing Manual by Ed Baig
PCs: The Missing Manual by Andy Rathbone
Personal Investing: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore
Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider
Photoshop Elements 9: The Missing Manual by Barbara Brundage
PowerPoint 2007: The Missing Manual by E.A. Vander Veer
Premiere Elements 8: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover
QuickBase: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner
QuickBooks 2011: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore
QuickBooks 2012: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore
Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition by David Pogue
Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition by David Pogue
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton
Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual, Second Edition by David Pogue
Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual, Second Edition by David Pogue, Craig Zacker, and Linda Zacker
Windows Vista: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Windows 7: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Word 2007: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover
Your Body: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
Your Brain: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
Your Money: The Missing Manual by J.D. Roth
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