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No, the first known electronic spreadsheet was a WYSIWYG full screen mainframe system, known as "The Works Records System", programmed entirely in IBM Assembly language, using IBM 3270 terminals and the CICS teleprocessing System as the multi-tasking transaction processor. It was created in 1974 - six years before Visicalc and was still operational until 2001 (27 years) at ICI in Cheshire, UK. It was a fully networked system and was used by Chemical Engineers to calculate tank yields in the manufacturing facilities at Runcorn and elsewhere. No programming was involved for the engineers, they just entered "formula" linking the various "cells" together as in a typical spreadsheet. Cells could have up to 5 levels of naming. Backup and recovery was built-in and it was a sharable system from the outset. It automatically created "aged" data on a Shift, Day, Week, Month or Yearly basis and could handle data added later to re-calculate previous results. These facts were deleted from Wikipedia by overenthusiastic editors. There is an extant copy of the user manual, describing the System at "The Computer History museum" in CA, USA.
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∙ 14y agoNo. Visicalc was the first spreadsheet program. It was created in 1978. Microsoft invented a spreadhseet called Multiplan in 1982 and then Excel in 1985.
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Why is Excel referred to as a spreadsheet program?
It is one of the many spreadsheet applications that have computerised the paper-based spreadsheet, so Excel is therefore a spreadsheet program.
What is some of the programs Excel?
Excel is a spreadsheet program.
What was the first name given to Excel program?
It has always been called Excel. Microsoft had an earlier spreadsheet program called Multiplan, but this was not an earlier version of Excel.
What is MS Office Excel as a software program?
It is a spreadsheet program.
What kind of program is Microsoft office 2007 excel?
It is a spreadsheet program.
Are worksheet and spreadsheet interchangeable?
MS Excel is considered a Spreadsheet program and sheets within an Excel file are referred to as worksheets. In other words, MS Excel is a spreadsheet program that produces worksheets but not a worksheet program that produces spreadsheets.Actually, the above is wrong. worksheet and spreadsheet are interchangable.
What is Microsoft XL?
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program.
What is Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Excel?
It is a spreadsheet program. This can also be used for editing charts.
What will I learn with excel training?
You will learn exactly how to use excel and what it entails. Excel is a spreadsheet and datamangement program.
Where was Microsoft Excel created?
Microsoft released the first version of Excel for the Mac in 1985, and the first Windows version (numbered 2.05 to line up with the Mac and bundled with a run-time Windows environment) in November 1987.
How can I convert a PDF to a excel spreadsheet?
You can transfer a PDF file into an excel file but simply copy and pasting the information into the excel program to create your spreadsheet. If this does not work there is no option.
How do you program an Excel spreadsheet to update when changes are made?
This is the default behavior in most (all?) versions of Excel. You have to go out of your way to tell a spreadsheet NOT to do this.
