The Missing Credits

About the Author

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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 CS6: The Missing Manual, and Word 2007: The Missing Manual. Email: .

About the Creative Team

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: .

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: .

Melanie Yarbrough (production editor) lives, works, and does pretty much everything else in Cambridge, MA. When not ushering books through production, she’s baking and writing up whatever she can imagine. Email: .

Bob Pfahler (indexer) is a freelance indexer who indexed this book on behalf of Potomac Indexing, LLC, an international indexing partnership at www.potomacindexing.com. Besides the subject of computer software, he specializes in business, management, biography, and history. He can be reached at .

Jacques Surveyer (technical reviewer) is a long-time Flash developer of the Air, Swift3D, and SwishMax variety who finds Adobe’s move to HTML5 animation via Edge of keen interest. See more coverage at www.theopensourcery.com/keepopen or ask for more at .

Darrell Heath (technical reviewer) is a freelance designer and web developer from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada with a background in Information Technology and visual arts. He also authors weekly tutorial content for NAPP and in his spare time is offering design related tips through his blog at www.heathrowe.com/blog. Email: .

Acknowledgements

Thanks to all the pros and friends on the Missing Manual team who worked to get this book into your hands. A special thanks again to Nan Barber whose skill, patience and planning has guided me through many books. Thanks also to Carla Spoon for catching typos and other embarrassing goofs on my part. I’m extremely grateful to Melanie Yarbrough, the production editor, for her work in putting all the parts together. Much appreciation also goes to Jacques Surveyer and Darrell Heath who provided their technical expertise while we explored this great new design/development tool. As always, thanks and love to Joyce, my wife, who makes work and play fun.

—Chris Grover

The Missing Manual Series

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). Recent and upcoming titles include:

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Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, Third Edition by Matthew MacDonald

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Dreamweaver CS5.5: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

Droid 2: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla

Droid X2: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla

Excel 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

Facebook: The Missing Manual, Third Edition by E.A. Vander Veer

FileMaker Pro 12: The Missing Manual by Susan Prosser and Stuart Gripman

Flash CS6: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover

Galaxy S II: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla

Galaxy Tab: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla

Google+: The Missing Manual by Kevin Purdy

Google Apps: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner

Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover

HTML5: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

iMovie ’11 & iDVD: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and Aaron Miller

iPad 2: The Missing Manual, Third Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer

iPhone: The Missing Manual, Fifth Edition by David Pogue

iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual by Craig Hockenberry

iPhoto ’11: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and Lesa Snider

iPod: The Missing Manual, Tenth Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer and David Pogue

JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual, Second Edition by David Sawyer McFarland

Kindle Fire: The Missing Manual, Second Edition by Peter Meyers

Living Green: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner

Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

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

NOOK Tablet: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla

Office 2010: The Missing Manual by Nancy Connor, Chris Grover, and Matthew MacDonald

Office 2011 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover

Palm Pre: The Missing Manual by Ed Baig

Personal Investing: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore

Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider

Photoshop Elements 10: The Missing Manual by Barbara Brundage

PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual, Second Edition by Brett McLaughlin

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 2012: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore

Quicken 2009: The Missing Manual by Bonnie Biafore

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Lion Edition by David Pogue

Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton

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

For a full list of all Missing Manuals in print, go to www.missingmanuals.com/library.html.

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