Mark Dodge has been working with and writing about Microsoft software since 1989, and is co-author of over a dozen Microsoft Press books on Microsoft Excel. As a former senior technical writer at Microsoft, he created print, online, and multimedia documentation for all Microsoft Office programs. Mark is a lifelong jazz and rock musician, as well as an award-winning fine art photographer.

Craig Stinson, an industry journalist since 1981, was editor of Softalk for the IBM Personal Computer, one of the earliest machine-specific computer magazines. He is the author of more than 20 Microsoft Press books about Windows and Excel.