A spreadsheet is a computer application Application software is computer software designed to help the user perform a particular task. Such programs are also called software applications, applications or apps. Typical examples are word processors, spreadsheets, media players and database applications that simulates a paper worksheet A worksheet is a piece of paper, often preprinted in a way designed to help organize material for learning or clear understanding. Students in a school may have "fill-in-the-blank" sheets of questions, diagrams or maps to help them with their exercises. Students will often use worksheets to review what has been taught in class. K-12. It displays multiple cells that together make up a grid consisting of rows and columns, each cell containing either alphanumeric Alphanumeric is a combination of alphabetic and numeric , and is used to describe the collection of Latin letters and Arabic digits used by much of western society. There are either 36 (single case) or 62 (case-sensitive) alphanumeric characters. The alphanumeric character set consists of the numbers 0 to 9 and letters A to Z text or numeric values. A spreadsheet cell may alternatively contain a formula In mathematics and other sciences, a formula is a concise way of expressing information symbolically (as in a mathematical or chemical formula), or a general relationship between quantities. One of many famous formulae is Albert Einstein's E = mc2 (see special relativity) that defines how the contents of that cell is to be calculated from the contents of any other cell (or combination of cells) each time any cell is updated. Spreadsheets are frequently used for financial Finance is the science of funds management. The general areas of finance are business finance, personal finance, and public finance. Finance includes saving money and often includes lending money. The field of finance deals with the concepts of time, money and risk and how they are interrelated. It also deals with how money is spent and budgeted information because of their ability to re-calculate the entire sheet automatically after a change to a single cell is made.
Visicalc VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. It is often considered the application that turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool. VisiCalc sold over 700,000 copies in six years is usually considered the first electronic spreadsheet (although this has been challenged), and it helped turn the Apple II computer The Apple II was one of the first highly successful mass produced microcomputer products, manufactured by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and introduced in 1977. In terms of ease of use, features and expandability the Apple II was a major technological advancement over its predecessor, the Apple I, a limited production bare circuit board computer into a success and greatly assisted in their widespread application. Lotus 1-2-3 Lotus 1-2-3 is a spreadsheet program from Lotus Software . It was the IBM PC's first "killer application"; its huge popularity in the mid-1980s contributed significantly to the success of the IBM PC in the corporate environment was the leading spreadsheet when DOS DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is a shorthand term for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions Windows 95, 98, and ME was the dominant operating system. Excel Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet-application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language called VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). It has been the most widely used spreadsheet application available for these platforms since version is now considered to have the largest market share on the Windows and Macintosh platforms.[1][2][3]
OpenOffice.org Calc Calc is similar to Microsoft Excel, with a roughly equivalent range of features. Calc is capable of opening and saving most spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel file format. It provides a number of features not present in Excel, including a system that automatically defines series for graphing based on the layout of the user's data. Calc is also spreadsheet
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This month is the 30th anniversary of what many consider the killer app for personal computers -- the electronic spreadsheet -- a program that moved the PC ...
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3 pages linking to it so the formula reflects the fact that these page are more important than the sub pages Let s suppose all pages link back to the home page Page1 like on this spreadsheet One way this could be done is with a breadcrumb trail and the result is shown to the right The result is shown to the right and this time Page1 has a much higher PageRank
