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Printed Page copyright page
Copyright notice

Please add the author's name (Philipp Lenssen) to the copyright notice.

(c) 2008 Philipp Lenssen

Brian Jepson
Brian Jepson
 
Jan 12, 2009 
Printed Page 10-11
bottom of 10 and top of 11

The favicons are no longer where the book says they are. I have not been able to find the new locations, if they exist. I guess that's the problem with this type of book. Addresses seem to change almost daily.

Anonymous  Jun 04, 2008 
Printed Page 12
1st paragraph

Quote: "Enter Ctrl-Alt-S -- or another shortcut, though some shortcuts are reserved by Windows and cannot be chosen -- and approve the dialog. Now, you can press Ctrl-Alt-D anywhere in Windows to launch a new spreadsheet with Google."

The key references here don't match. Both should read "Ctrl-Alt-S". The next paragraph explains how to use "Ctrl-Alt-D" for creating a shortcut for "New Google Document", so perhaps the error crept in when re-ordering the sentence/paragraph structure.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 54
4th line below picture

When I enter the formula as described,
=
GoogleLookup("Isaac Asimov", "Birth date")

Google cuts off at the first " mark, and says I'm entering the formula incorrectly. I tried everything, and could not type the string above successfully. I was able to get the GoogleLookup function to work, but it appears to me that something special must be done to enter a constant string in google lookup.

This was irritating, because it was the first thing I tried to test from the book, and it was not "typeable" (on a PC using Safari browser.)

Anonymous