In this book you will find our combined experience from working with Microsoft Excel on a daily basis in corporate management, software training, statistics, database projects, and programming. Here is who we are:
Sara Unverhau has a degree in international business administration (equivalent to an MBA) with a focus on marketing, corporate management, and languages. She works in marketing and communications. Sara has written many articles and book chapters about topics related to business administration for different publishers.
Jens Bock has a degree in business administration (equivalent to an MBA). Jens specializes in quality control and documentation, which is also the area in which he works. As a consultant for quality control and web applications, he contributed his broad range of experience with Excel.
Dr. Bodo Fienitz has a doctorate in chemistry and since 1991 has been lecturing full-time in adult education. In addition to science (chemistry, physics, and biology), he teaches IT-related topics for theoretical and practical applications. His lectures range from IT basics and operating systems to solutions for the commercial and technical sectors. He first came into contact with data processing in 1971 while studying electrical engineering at the Technische Universität Berlin. For his doctorate in chemistry at the Freie Universität Berlin during the 1980s, he used computer-aided process control, measurement data logging, and measurement data evaluation. Working with the required visualization and subsequent data processing made Dr. Fienitz an Excel expert.
Egbert Jeschke has been working for years as a trainer, application consultant, and application developer. As someone who has committed himself to relational and multidimensional databases, he can appreciate the strengths of Excel and knows how to take advantage of them. Thorough knowledge of SQL, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and word processing with Microsoft Word make him well-rounded. He is the author and coauthor of several books about Microsoft Office software through Microsoft Press and other publishers.
Dr. Eckehard Pfeifer is a mathematician who works as a freelance consultant, developer, and trainer. He is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer for Microsoft .NET, and his specialty is mainly the Office environment. He writes for various special-interest magazines and loose-leaf editions. He is the coauthor of several books through Microsoft Press (Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint handbooks as well as books on Excel and Microsoft Office 2007 programming).
Helmut Reinke is the guiding spirit of this team and has written numerous publications about Office applications, commercial solutions, project management, and business administration. He is an organization programmer who focuses on success planning and business planning. He has been an Excel guru since the early days of Excel. In addition to benefitting this book with his many years of experience working in sales and commerce, he has contributed his skilled didactical experience as a lecturer and trainer.