Laura Stewart

Patrick Blattner has authored and co-authored Special Edition Using Microsoft Excel 2000 and Special Edition Using Microsoft Word and Excel in Office 2000. Patrick has been using Excel for more than 12 years in corporate and private business. After graduating from Northeast Louisiana University, he started out in the contracting and gold-mining industry. He then branched off into product development where he received a United States Utility Patent (5,031,865). A member of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, he spent several years in interactive media development with Disney Interactive. Most recently, he moved to Silicon Valley for new media initiatives and vertical application software development. He can be contacted at Patrick@Blattnerbooks.com or you can visit his Web site at www.Blattnerbooks.com.