Greg Harvey (1949–2020)
Author of The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-earth for Dummies
About the Author
Greg Harvey is a prolific author of personal computing books that are highly informative, yet entertaining and easy to understand. Harvey earned a B.A. in classics and American history from the University of Illinois in Urbana in 1970. He moved to San Francisco the following year and worked as a show more draftsman on civil engineering projects for the next 10 years Harvey became interested in the growing computer field in the early 1980s. While teaching college computer classes at Golden Gate University, he wrote his first books, WordPerfect Desktop Companion (1987) and WordPerfect Instant Reference (1988). Since then, he has written, in his own words, "tons of books." These include Lotus 1-2-3 Instant Reference (1989), Encyclopedia Lotus 1-2-3 (1991), and WordPerfect 6 for Windows Quickstart (1993). Since 1993, Harvey has written exclusively for Dummies Press of IDG Books, for whom he has turned out several personal computing classics, such as 1-2-3 for Dummies (1993), DOS for Dummies (third edition, 1998), and Excel 2000 for Windows for Dummies (1998). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Greg Harvey
Excel 2010 Para Totós 1 copy
Excel za telebane 1 copy
Windows '95 1 copy
Lotus 1 2 3 - Versão I I I 1 copy
Lotus 1 2 3 Versão 3 II 1 copy
Excel 5 for dosmere 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Harvey, Gregory A.
- Birthdate
- 1949-02-15
- Date of death
- 2020-01-09
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Illinois
Laney College
California Institute of Integral Studies - Occupations
- teacher
writer - Organizations
- Golden Gate University
- Relationships
- Aiken, Christopher (husband)
- Cause of death
- multiple myeloma
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Dolton, Illinois, USA
- Places of residence
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Place of death
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Burial location
- San Francisco Columbarium
- Associated Place (for map)
- California, USA
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This handy pocket guide proved its use the day I picked it up! If you don't have the time for classes and are unlikely to to read the full-size 400 page guide, this works just fine. A down and dirty quick guide for the basic Excel user that lets you improve your efficiency in use of this software and of your work day.
The best impulse check-out counter buy I've made! My husband is still thanking me for making his life easier and now... Yes, I scored major brownie points with this one... he's show more asked me out to dinner in his eternal gratitude! Yeah, baby! show less
The best impulse check-out counter buy I've made! My husband is still thanking me for making his life easier and now... Yes, I scored major brownie points with this one... he's show more asked me out to dinner in his eternal gratitude! Yeah, baby! show less
Not 100 percent accurate but still full of all kinds of useful information. A great way to get acclimated to Tolkien's world without having to actually read the books.
This is a big, heavy book. It is a reference book, not a handbook. Fortunately, you can usually find what you're looking for without consulting the index. The font size used in the three separate indexes (Command, Function, and Topic) are too tiny for my tired old eyes, anyway.
The book is divided into eight parts: (1) Preliminary Considerations, (2) Spreadsheet Commands, (3) Spreadsheet Formulas and Functions, (4) Database Management, (5) Creating and Using Graphics, (6) Printing and show more Plotting, (7) Macros and the Macro Command Language, and (8) Using Lotus 1-2-3 with Other Programs.
The scope of the book is broad. It covers all aspects of using Lotus 1-2-3, both Release 1A and Release 2.
The minimum hardware and software requirements for running Lotus 1-2-3 Release 2 are: 256K RAM, DOS 2.x or higher, and 8087 or 80287 CPU. The maximum number of spreadsheet cells is 2 million. The maximum column width is 240 bytes. The maximum database size is 256 fields and 8191 records.
As of October 2008, I am still a satisfied user of Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS, Release 2.3. It works just fine on my Windows XP machine in a DOS emulation window. I can share spreadsheets with my decrepit, ten-year-old laptop running Windows 98SE. show less
The book is divided into eight parts: (1) Preliminary Considerations, (2) Spreadsheet Commands, (3) Spreadsheet Formulas and Functions, (4) Database Management, (5) Creating and Using Graphics, (6) Printing and show more Plotting, (7) Macros and the Macro Command Language, and (8) Using Lotus 1-2-3 with Other Programs.
The scope of the book is broad. It covers all aspects of using Lotus 1-2-3, both Release 1A and Release 2.
The minimum hardware and software requirements for running Lotus 1-2-3 Release 2 are: 256K RAM, DOS 2.x or higher, and 8087 or 80287 CPU. The maximum number of spreadsheet cells is 2 million. The maximum column width is 240 bytes. The maximum database size is 256 fields and 8191 records.
As of October 2008, I am still a satisfied user of Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS, Release 2.3. It works just fine on my Windows XP machine in a DOS emulation window. I can share spreadsheets with my decrepit, ten-year-old laptop running Windows 98SE. show less
I have never really needed to use Excel, but with my blog, I want to be able to make some great graphs...so, this is one of my current reads...all the "dummies" books are great.
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