About the Author

Paul McFedries runs Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company, and has been writing computer books for more than 15 years. He is the author or coauthor of more than 40 computer books that have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. His recent titles include the Sams Publishing book Windows XP Unleashed (2005) and the Sams Publishing books Formulas and Functions with Microsoft Excel 2003 (2005), Tricks of the Microsoft Office Gurus (2005), and Microsoft Access 2003 Forms, Reports, and Queries (2004). He is also the proprietor of Wordspy.com, a website that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the language.