Paul McFedries - Teach Yourself VISUALLY Computers

Teach Yourself VISUALLY

Computers, 5th Edition

by Paul McFedries

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Computers, 5th Edition

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Published simultaneously in Canada

Copyright 2007 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana

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Credits

Project Editor

Jade L. Williams

Acquisitions Editor

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Copy Editor

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Technical Editor

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About the Author

Paul McFedries is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company. Paul has worked with many different types of computers since 1975 and has been a full-time technical writer since 1991. He has written over 50 books that have sold more than three million copies worldwide. These books include the Wiley titles Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows Vista , Windows Vista Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks , and The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 . Paul is also the proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com), a website that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the language.

Authors Acknowledgments

All books have text, of course, and I had fun supplying this book with its textual skeleton. However, this books beauty (and it is beautiful, Im sure you will agree) comes from Wileys immensely talented group of illustrators, designers, and layout artists. They are all listed in the Credits section on the previous page, and I thank them for creating another gem. The text is important too, and the task of ensuring that what you read here is accurate, logically presented, and free of errors fell to an excellent group of editors that included project editor Jade Williams, copy editors Scott Tullis and Kim Heusel, and technical editor Lee Musick. Thanks to all of you for your exceptional competence and hard work. Thanks, as well, to acquistitions editor Jody Lefevere for asking me to write this book, and to Karen Hammond for taking many of the original photographs used in this book.

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