Lotus 123 came before Microsoft Excel by about 2 years.
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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.
Lotus 123 was a very early spreadsheet type application. It rivaled Microsoft's "Excel" application in some respects.
An electronic spreadsheet such as Lotus 1-2-3 or Excel.
Excel 2007 can support 1,024 times more cells than Lotus 1-2-3 (Release 9.8).Excel 2007 can support up to 17,179,869,184 (17 billion) cells.Lotus 1-2-3 (Release 9.8) can support up to 16,777,216 (16 million) cells.
Calc (LibreOffice) and Excel (Microsoft) Lotus 1-2-3 (IBM) are all spreadsheet applications.
Jack A. Holt has written: 'Cases and applications in Microsoft Excel 5.0' -- subject(s): Business, Computer programs, Electronic spreadsheets, Microsoft Excel (Computer file) 'Cases and applications in Lotus 1-2-3 with HAL' -- subject(s): Business, Computer programs, Lotus 1-2-3 (Computer file), Lotus HAL
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.
Some examples of spreadsheet application software are the following:Openoffice.org CalcMicrosoft Office ExcelGoogleDocsGnumericApple iWork NumbersLotus 1-2-3
.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.