VisiCalc was the first electronic spreadsheet program, designed in 1978 and launched in 1979 on an Apple computer, so it would have been the initial leader. Since then many other spreadsheet programs have come, with Lotus 123 being the big one of the early 1980s and from the mid 1980s to the present day, Excel has been the main one.
Lotus 1-2-3 is a spreadsheet program.
Lotus 123 was a very early successful spreadsheet program that could run on DOS. The first spreadsheet, VisiCalc, was designed for the Apple, but there was a DOS version later. Quattro was another spreadsheet that ran through DOS. Before the first Windows operating system, there was a Windows interface that ran on DOS and there was versions of Excel that could run in those versions of Windows.
An electronic spreadsheet such as Lotus 1-2-3 or Excel.
The best-known spreadsheet software packages are Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3 from IBM Corporation, and Corel's Quattro Pro.
One is a spreadsheet program made by Lotus the other is a spreadsheet program made by Microsoft. The main difference is the way in which formulas are entered - in Excel they are preceded by the = symbol and in 1-2-3 they are preceded by the + symbol.
Nope - Open Office base is a database program, MS Excel is a spreadsheet.
1. word processing. 2. program that allows you to create, edit and print text document. 3. spreadsheet; rows and columns.
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They either used other spreadsheet applications, or calculators or paper. Excel was not the first electronic spreadsheet. Excel came out in 1985, but the first electronic spreadsheet was VisiCalc, which came out in 1979. There were others between VisiCalc and Excel, most notably Lotus 1-2-3.
There are literally hundreds, but here are a few: Online Spreadsheet Software - Simple Spreadsheet, Wikicalc, ZK Spreadsheet. Offline Spreadsheet Software - OpenOffice, Gnumeric, KSpread, NeoOffice, and Siag. Standalone Spreadsheet Software - Bean Sheet, and GNU Oleo.
.wk1 is a file extenstion that represents a spreadsheet file associated with Lotus 1-2-3, the first major spreadsheet application developed by Lotus Software - just as the file extention .xls would represent a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file.
.wk1 is a file extenstion that represents a spreadsheet file associated with Lotus 1-2-3, the first major spreadsheet application developed by Lotus Software - just as the file extention .xls would represent a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file.