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About the Author

Greg Harvey has authored tons of computer books, the most recent being Adobe
Acrobat 6 PDF For Dummies and Roxio Easy Media Creator For Dummies. He started
out training business users on how to use IBM personal computers and their attendant
computer software in the rough and tumble days of DOS, WordStar, and Lotus 1-2-3 in
the mid-80s of the last century. After working for a number of independent training firms,
he went on to teach semester-long courses in spreadsheet and database management
software at Golden Gate University in San Francisco.

His love of teaching has translated into an equal love of writing. For the last ten years or
more, For Dummies books have been his favorites to write because they enable him to
address his favorite audience, the beginner. They also enable him to use humor (a key
element to success in the training room) and, most delightful of all, to express an opin-
ion or two about the subject matter at hand.

Dedication

To all the people connected with the For Dummies phenomenon with whom I’ve had to the
pleasure to work over the last decade, be they in the editing, management, production,
or marketing end of the business, starting with IDG Books and extending to Hungry Minds
and all the way up to Wiley Publishing: Thanks for the great memories and many good
times!

Author’s Acknowledgments

I am always so grateful to the many people who work so hard to bring my book projects
into being, and this one is no exception. If anything, I am even more thankful for the talents
given the special task-oriented nature of the Timesaving Techniques series.

This time, special thanks are in order to Andy Cummings and Tiffany Franklin for giving me
this opportunity to write and write and write about Excel in this new Timesaving Techniques
format. Next, I want to express great thanks to my project editor, Paul Levesque, for all
his ready help and seasoned answers to my questions on the nature of this series and,
to my partner in crime, Christopher Aiken (I really appreciate all your encouragement
on this one). Thanks also go to Kim Darosett for the great copy edit, Doug Sahlin for the
great technical edit, Courtney MacIntyre and Erin Smith for coordinating its production,
and everybody at Wiley Publishing and TECHBOOKS Production Services for proofread-
ing and indexing.