Katherine Murray wrote her first book about Microsoft Word back in the dark ages when it was only available in a DOS version (remember that?). Over the years, Word has been her favorite program, and she’s seen it grow from a mind-blowing word processing program (that actually shows line breaks on the screen!) to a full-featured, complex (and overweight, some might say) program that does everything you could ever want a word processor to do, including sewing a button on your shirt. Finally she’s seen Word mature into an elegant, smart, efficient program that provides the flexibility to produce content for a variety of platforms, graphic design tools to help even art-challenged writers look good, and enough high-end features that proficient users can streamline their tasks and produce smart content that hits the mark but doesn’t gobble up their creative time.

Katherine writes about all sorts of Microsoft Office technologies, and, true to what she writes about, she outputs the content she writes through multiple channels: As books, e-books, presentations, video demonstrations, articles (for CNET’s TechRepublic and Microsoft.com), and online learning courses with Microsoft Learning. She also blogs regularly (her Office blog is called, appropriately, BlogOffice) and loves gardening, cooking, and doing just about anything under the sun with her kids, grandkids, and animals.