1870:, or any variable, was an object in itself, not a collection of cells that happen to appear in a row or column. Variables could have many attributes, including complete awareness of their connections to all other variables, data references, and text and image notes. Calculations were performed on these objects, as opposed to a range of cells, so adding two-time series automatically aligns them in calendar time, or in a user-defined time frame. Data were independent of worksheets—variables, and therefore data, could not be destroyed by deleting a row, column, or entire worksheet. For instance, January's costs are subtracted from January's revenues, regardless of where or whether either appears in a worksheet. This permits actions later used in
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505:. A. Leroy Ellison, Harry N. Cantrell, and Russell E. Edwards found themselves doing a large number of calculations when making tables for the business plans that they were presenting to venture capitalists. They decided to save themselves a lot of effort and wrote a computer program that produced their tables for them. This program, originally conceived as a simple utility for their personal use, would turn out to be the first software product offered by the company that would become known as
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on each sheet can be used if it is distinguished by adding the sheet name. One reason for this usage is for creating or running macros that repeat a command across many sheets. Another reason is that formulas with named variables are readily checked against the algebra they are intended to implement (they resemble
Fortran expressions). The use of named variables and named functions also makes the spreadsheet structure more transparent.
1874:, except that flexible manipulation of report tables, was but one of many capabilities supported by variables. Moreover, if costs were entered by week and revenues by month, the program could allocate or interpolate as appropriate. This object design enabled variables and whole models to reference each other with user-defined variable names and to perform multidimensional analysis and massive, but easily editable consolidations.
1095:, called a sheet, with either raw data, called values, or formulas in the cells. Formulas say how to mechanically compute new values from existing values. Values are general numbers, but can also be pure text, dates, months, etc. Extensions of these concepts include logical spreadsheets. Various tools for programming sheets, visualizing data, remotely connecting sheets, displaying cells' dependencies, etc. are commonly provided.
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array of cells, an almost identical formula (but residing in its own "output" cell) must be repeated for each row of the "input" array. This differs from a "formula" in a conventional computer program, which typically makes one calculation that it applies to all the input in turn. With current spreadsheets, this forced repetition of near-identical formulas can have detrimental consequences from a
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with $ in front of the part concerned of the cell reference). The alternative "R1C1" reference style consists of the letter R, the row number, the letter C, and the column number; relative row or column numbers are indicated by enclosing the number in square brackets. Most current spreadsheets use the A1 style, some providing the R1C1 style as a compatibility option.
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should not have to depend on programmers to program and modify budgeting forms, and he thought of letting users type out forms in any order and having an electronic computer calculate results in the right order ("Forward
Referencing/Natural Order Calculation"). Pardo and Landau developed and implemented the software in 1969.
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Likewise, instead of using a named range of cells, a range reference can be used. Reference to a range of cells is typical of the form (A1:A6), which specifies all the cells in the range A1 through to A6. A formula such as "=SUM(A1:A6)" would add all the cells specified and put the result in the cell
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Services, which operated the time-sharing service, also launched its own spreadsheet system, Financial Analysis Language (FAL), circa 1974. It was later supplemented by an additional spreadsheet language, TABOL, which was developed by an independent author, Oliver Vellacott in the UK.
2138:. This makes it difficult to determine who changed what and when. This can cause problems with regulatory compliance. Lack of revision control greatly increases the risk of errors due to the inability to track, isolate and test changes made to a document. Modern spreadsheets include revision control.
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are spreadsheet cells, and the edges are references to other cells specified in formulas. This is often called the dependency graph of the spreadsheet. References between cells can take advantage of spatial concepts such as relative position and absolute position, as well as named locations, to make
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tool. EUD denotes activities or techniques in which people who are not professional developers create automated behavior and complex data objects without significant knowledge of a programming language. Many people find it easier to perform calculations in spreadsheets than by writing the equivalent
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September 30, 1985, and then ported it to Windows, with the first version being numbered 2.05 (to synchronize with the Macintosh version 2.2) and released in November 1987. Microsoft's Windows 3.x platforms of the early 1990s made it possible for their Excel spreadsheet application to take market
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Programming Arrays at Random. This was conceived and entirely developed in the summer of 1969, following Pardo and Landau's recent graduation from Harvard University. Co-inventor Rene Pardo recalls that he felt that one manager at Bell Canada
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file format which is the default file format used in versions prior to 2007 had a capacity limit of 65,536 rows by 256 columns (2 and 2 respectively). This presents a problem for people using larger datasets, and can result in data loss. In spite of the time passed, a recent example is the loss of
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Specifically, spreadsheets typically contain many copies of the same formula. When the formula is modified, the user has to change every cell containing that formula. In contrast, most computer languages allow a formula to appear only once in the code and achieve repetition using loops: making them
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The practical expressiveness of spreadsheets can be limited unless their modern features are used. Several factors contribute to this limitation. Implementing a complex model on a cell-at-a-time basis requires tedious attention to detail. Authors have difficulty remembering the meanings of hundreds
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They are forgiving, allowing partial results and functions to work. One or more parts of a program can work correctly, even if other parts are unfinished or broken. This makes writing and debugging programs easier, and faster. Sequential programming usually needs every program line and character to
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The available options for valid formulas depend on the particular spreadsheet implementation but, in general, most arithmetic operations and quite complex nested conditional operations can be performed by most of today's commercial spreadsheets. Modern implementations also offer functions to access
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to summarize a spreadsheet's operation: a cell's value relies solely on the formula the user has typed into the cell. The formula may rely on the value of other cells, but those cells are likewise restricted to user-entered data or formulas. There are no 'side effects' to calculating a formula: the
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When a cell contains a formula, it often contains references to other cells. Such a cell reference is a type of variable. Its value is the value of the referenced cell or some derivation of it. If that cell in turn references other cells, the value depends on the values of those. References can be
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and treating the two pages as one large page. The compound word 'spread-sheet' came to mean the format used to present book-keeping ledgers—with columns for categories of expenditures across the top, invoices listed down the left margin, and the amount of each payment in the cell where its row and
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The results of a formula (example "=A1*B1") applies only to a single cell (that is, the cell the formula is located in—in this case perhaps C1), even though it can "extract" data from many other cells, and even real-time dates and actual times. This means that to cause a similar calculation on an
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needed to place the result in the cell it is contained within. A cell containing a formula, therefore, has two display components; the formula itself and the resulting value. The formula is normally only shown when the cell is selected by "clicking" the mouse over a particular cell; otherwise, it
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Some spreadsheet implementations in Excel allow cell references to another spreadsheet (not the currently open and active file) on the same computer or a local network. It may also refer to a cell in another open and active spreadsheet on the same computer or network that is defined as shareable.
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in "A1" style consists of one or two case-insensitive letters to identify the column (if there are up to 256 columns: A–Z and AA–IV) followed by a row number (e.g., in the range 1–65536). Either part can be relative (it changes when the formula it is in is moved or copied), or absolute (indicated
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management system. Programs within a suite use similar commands for similar functions. Usually, sharing data between the components is easier than with a non-integrated collection of functionally equivalent programs. This was particularly an advantage at a time when many personal computer systems
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arranged into rows and columns and referred to by the X and Y locations. X locations, the columns, are normally represented by letters, "A," "B," "C," etc., while rows are normally represented by numbers, 1, 2, 3, etc. A single cell can be referred to by addressing its row and column, "C10". This
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the expenditures of these institutions are carefully audited by an accounting staff at the
Department. A spread sheet showing every item of expenditure is prepared each month so that the superintendent is kept posted, not only on the amounts expended, but is able to see at a glance what the same
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Adding or removing a dimension is so difficult, one generally has to start over. The spreadsheet as a paradigm forces one to decide on dimensionality right of the beginning of one's spreadsheet creation, even though it is often most natural to make these choices after one's spreadsheet model has
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The alteration of a dimension demands major surgery. When rows (or columns) are added to or deleted from a table, one has to adjust the size of many downstream tables that depend on the table being changed. In the process, it is often necessary to move other cells around to make room for the new
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LANPAR was used by Bell Canada, AT&T, and the 18 operating telephone companies nationwide for their local and national budgeting operations. LANPAR was also used by
General Motors. Its uniqueness was Pardo's co-invention incorporating forward referencing/natural order calculation (one of the
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Spreadsheet users can adjust any stored value and observe the effects on calculated values. This makes the spreadsheet useful for "what-if" analysis since many cases can be rapidly investigated without manual recalculation. Modern spreadsheet software can have multiple interacting sheets and can
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A standard of spreadsheets since the 1980s, this optional feature eliminates the need to manually request the spreadsheet program to recalculate values (nowadays typically the default option unless specifically 'switched off' for large spreadsheets, usually to improve performance). Some earlier
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in various self-documenting ways, including simultaneous multiple synchronized views. For example, users of
Javelin could move through the connections between variables on a diagram while seeing the logical roots and branches of each variable. This is an example of what is perhaps its primary
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Similarly, formulas expressed in terms of cell addresses are hard to keep straight and hard to audit. Research shows that spreadsheet auditors who check numerical results and cell formulas find no more errors than auditors who only check numerical results. That is another reason to use named
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only output is to display the calculated result inside its occupying cell. There is no natural mechanism for permanently modifying the contents of a cell unless the user manually modifies the cell's contents. In the context of programming languages, this yields a limited form of first-order
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Parallax Systems, Inc.: Released in late 1982, ExecuCalc was the first mainframe "visi-clone" which duplicated the features of VisiCalc on IBM mainframes with 3270 display terminals. Over 150 copies were licensed (35 to Fortune 500 companies). DP managers were attracted to
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column intersect—which were, traditionally, a "spread" across facing pages of a bound ledger (book for keeping accounting records) or on oversized sheets of paper (termed 'analysis paper') ruled into rows and columns in that format and approximately twice as wide as ordinary paper.
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184:, a group of cells, normally contiguous. For instance, one can refer to the first ten cells in the first column with the range "A1:A10". LANPAR innovated forward referencing/natural order calculation which didn't re-appear until Lotus 123 and Microsoft's MultiPlan Version 2.
1676:=IF(AND(A1<>"",B1<>""),IF(B1<>0,A1/B1,"Division by zero"),"") means that if cells A1 and B1 are not empty, and B1 is not zero, then divide A1 by B1, if B1 is zero, then display "Division by zero", and do not display anything if either A1 and B1 are empty.
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in the supplied Visual Basic editor, and such functions are automatically accessible on the worksheet. Also, programs can be written that pull information from the worksheet, perform some calculations, and report the results back to the worksheet. In the figure, the name
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of either the content (point size, color, bold or italic) or the cell (border thickness, background shading, color). To aid the readability of a spreadsheet, cell formatting may be conditionally applied to data; for example, a negative number may be displayed in red.
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Some say that half of all IBM PCs, in their hundreds of thousands, are running just 1-2-3. Numbers— clever, quick, knowledgeable— boiling the stupidity out of countless business decisions. Interesting how essential the quickness is. It's 1-2-3's speed that put it on
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spreadsheet program, it was a simple scripting language for spreadsheets. The user defined the names and labels for the rows and columns, then the formulas that defined each row or column. In 1975, Autotab-II was advertised as extending the original to a maximum of
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Programming Arrays at Random) (co-invented by Rene Pardo and Remy Landau) and a variant used in VisiCalc and known as "A1 notation". Additionally, spreadsheets have the concept of a
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was a spreadsheet application published by Sorcim in 1980, and originally bundled (along with WordStar) as part of the CP/M software package included with the Osborne 1 portable computer. It quickly became the de facto standard spreadsheet for CP/M.
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on an IBM 360/91, running at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD. The application was used successfully for many years in developing such applications as financial and costing models for the US Congress and for
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drawn from the legacy batch system into each user's spreadsheet monthly. It was designed to optimize the power of APL through object kernels, increasing program efficiency by as much as 50 fold over traditional programming approaches.
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Despite the high error risks often associated with spreadsheet authorship and use, specific steps can be taken to significantly enhance control and reliability by structurally reducing the likelihood of error occurrence at their
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Research by ClusterSeven has shown huge discrepancies in the way financial institutions and corporate entities understand, manage and police their often vast estates of spreadsheets and unstructured financial data (including
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as new versions were released. Users could specify simple mathematical relationships between rows and between columns. Compared to any contemporary alternatives, it could support very large spreadsheets. It loaded actual
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to mean a grid of columns and rows in a ledger. And prior to the rise of computerized spreadsheets, "spread" referred to a newspaper or magazine item (text or graphics) that covers two facing pages, extending across the
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contribution of the earlier Javelin—the concept of traceability of a user's logic or model structure through its twelve views. A complex model can be dissected and understood by others who had no role in its creation.
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using the letters A-Z as numerals. Its physical size can usually be tailored to its content by dragging its height or width at box intersections (or for entire columns or rows by dragging the column- or row-headers).
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interactive user interface, automatic recalculation, status and formula lines, range copying with relative and absolute references, and formula building by selecting referenced cells. Unaware of LANPAR at the time,
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be correct for a program to run. One error usually stops the whole program and prevents any result. Though this user-friendliness is benefit of spreadsheet development, it often comes with increased risk of errors.
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appeared. Unlike models in a conventional spreadsheet, they utilized models built on objects called variables, not on data in cells of a report. These multi-dimensional spreadsheets enabled viewing data and
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invisible except for a transparent user interface that requests pertinent input from the user, displays results requested by the user, creates reports, and has built-in error traps to prompt correct input.
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Animation of a simple spreadsheet that multiplies values in the left column by 2, then sums the calculated values from the right column to the bottom-most cell. In this example, only the values in the
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was launched, notable in that the web based spreadsheet could be hosted and integrated into any environment without dependency on a 3rd party for authentication or maintenance. Collabora Online runs
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spreadsheets required a manual request to recalculate since the recalculation of large or complex spreadsheets often reduced data entry speed. Many modern spreadsheets still retain this option.
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While spreadsheets represented a major step forward in quantitative modeling, they have deficiencies. Their shortcomings include the perceived unfriendliness of alpha-numeric cell addresses.
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may arise from inputting erroneous or fraudulent data values, from mistakes (or incorrect changes) within the logic of the spreadsheet or the omission of relevant updates (e.g., out of date
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about spaces, and of dependencies between items. Sequential programming usually requires typing line after line of text, which must be read slowly and carefully to be understood and changed.
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can write values or text found within the subroutine directly to the spreadsheet. The figure shows the Visual Basic code for a subroutine that reads each member of the named column variable
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or conventional, non-interactive, batch computer program. However, this concept of an electronic spreadsheet was outlined in the 1961 paper "Budgeting Models and System Simulation" by
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semantic relationships. While it is true that a workbook that contains three sheets is indeed a file containing multiple tables that can interact with each other, it lacks the
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and had improvements in speed and graphics compared to VisiCalc on the Apple II, this helped it grow in popularity. Lotus 1-2-3 was the leading spreadsheet for several years.
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Sarkar, Advait; Blackwell, Alan; Jamnik, Mateja; Spott, Martin (2014). "Teach and try: A simple interaction technique for exploratory data modelling by end users".
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places). Even though individual cells are marked as locked, the spreadsheet data are not protected until the feature is activated in the file preferences.
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offered a similar product, CSSTAB, which had a moderate timesharing user base by the early 1970s. A major application was opinion research tabulation.)
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suite. By 1995, Excel was the market leader, edging out Lotus 1-2-3, and in 2013, IBM discontinued Lotus 1-2-3 altogether.
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standpoint and is often the cause of many spreadsheet errors. Some spreadsheets have array formulas to address this issue.
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into databases to become tables within them, and database queries can be exported into spreadsheets for further analysis.
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Sroka, J.; Panasiuk, A.; Stencel, K.; Tyszkiewicz, J. (2015-02-02). "Translating Relational Queries into Spreadsheets".
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Sarkar, A.; Jamnik, M.; Blackwell, A.F.; Spott, M. (2015-10-01). "Interactive visual machine learning in spreadsheets".
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the case of web-based spreadsheets, as a near real-time value with a specified automatic refresh interval.
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in this case, not the formula itself. This may lead to confusion in some cases.
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that completely hid the programming language from the end-user. Through IBM's
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as a tool for extensibility beyond what the spreadsheet language makes easy.
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recalculations, (usually) converge on the correct values for those cells.
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4113:"Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost"
4091:"Excel specifications and limits – Excel – Microsoft Office"
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4171:"Excel spreadsheets in School budgeting – a cautionary tale (2001)"
3949:"Weighing the Pros and Cons of Decision Technology in Spreadsheets"
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Powell, Stephen G.; Baker, Kenneth R.; Lawson, Barry (2007-12-01).
2524:"Spreadsheet usage by management accountants: An exploratory study"
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found major coding flaws in the spreadsheet used by the economists
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It is often convenient to think of a spreadsheet as a mathematical
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sequential program. This is due to several traits of spreadsheets.
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Bradbard, David A.; Alvis, Charles; Morris, Richard (2014-12-01).
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capabilities, many spreadsheets are used solely for this purpose.
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display data either as text and numerals or in graphical form.
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platforms. A spreadsheet program is a standard feature of an
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from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a business tool.
89:, modern spreadsheets provide built-in functions for common
3895:"A Critical Review of the Literature on Spreadsheet Errors"
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magazine called VisiCalc the first electronic spreadsheet.
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items are costing in similar institutions in the Province.
2670:"spreadsheet analysis from winners, losers, and Microsoft"
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the spreadsheet formulas easier to understand and manage.
686:, but VisiCalc remains best known as an Apple II program.
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A spreadsheet program is one of the main components of an
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These references contain the complete filename, such as:
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Spreadsheet – Its First Computerization (1961–1964)
3099:"PC World– Three Minutes: Godfathers of the Spreadsheet"
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displays the spreadsheet definitions of named variables
1725:. In Microsoft Excel, these functions are defined using
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Simulation of the Firm through a Budget Computer Program
3422:; Goldstein, JL (September 1984). "Computer Software".
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or thousands of cell addresses that appear in formulas.
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custom-build functions, remote data, and applications.
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The concept of spreadsheets became widely known due to
3834:. Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). Archived from
3208:. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 171.
3144:"Killer Applications" (overview), Partha gawaargupta.
1665:=IF(SUM(A1:A6) > 100, "More than 100%", SUM(A1:A6))
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function that adds up all the numbers within a range.
160:. In 2006 Google launched a beta release spreadsheet
3788:"Spreadsheet Risk Management within UK Organisations"
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Other problems associated with spreadsheets include:
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Spreadsheets that have a formula language based upon
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on a spreadsheet automatic natural order calculation
362:. The subsequent work by Mattessich (1964a, Chpt. 9,
3035:"'Autotab' Update Extends Former Matrix Size Limits"
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Refac International, Ltd. v. Lotus Development Corp.
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Refac International, Ltd. v. Lotus Development Corp.
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Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged
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American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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and spreadsheet formulas can express all queries of
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A cell on the same "sheet" is usually addressed as:
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1913:) of data more efficiently in the computer itself.
1274:Recalculation generally requires that there are no
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710:in November 1982 accelerated the acceptance of the
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4062:Problems With Using Microsoft Excel for Statistics
2928:Brian Walsh (1996), "Business Computer Language",
2901:(1961). "Budgeting Models and System Simulation".
295:used text-mode displays and commands instead of a
136:into a popular and widely used personal computer.
2377:(12th ed.). HarperCollins Publishers. 2014.
2088:variables and formulas employing named variables.
489:Autoplan/Autotab spreadsheet programming language
259:Spreadsheets share many principles and traits of
93:and statistical operations. Such calculations as
1119:starting from 1, while columns representing the
1077:capabilities remain well respected to this day.
902:Docs Spreadsheet editor is free and open source.
74:may also refer to one such electronic document.
4053:http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jcryer/JSMTalk2001.pdf
3506:23rd Australian Software Engineering Conference
3262:"Computing History - Computing History Members"
808:magazine front page article and advertisement.)
722:Microsoft Excel for Apple Macintosh and Windows
366:) and its companion volume, Mattessich (1964b,
4138:"Spreadsheet Management: Not what you figured"
3897:. Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
3808:. Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
1717:Spreadsheets usually contain several supplied
867:is free and cross-platform, it is part of the
220:. A formula would begin with the equals sign,
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789:that was launched 39 years ago in 1985.
752:Google Sheets, Online, Web-based spreadsheets
8:
3276:"IBM 3270 Terminals Get Spreadsheet Package"
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1032:SC IM (formerly SC - Spreadsheet Calculator)
3561:"Empowering Users to Create Their Software"
3200:Liebowitz, Stan; Margolis, Stephen (2001).
2827:N.A.C.A. Bulletin 1933-01-15: Vol 14 Iss 10
2729:"Google "Docs & Spreadsheets" Launches"
762:In 2006 Google launched their beta release
421:. It was used to assist in the teaching of
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4300:"Finance groups lack spreadsheet controls"
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3229:Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. (15 May 2013).
3001:"The World's First Electronic Spreadsheet"
2498:"Linked Open Data for Spreadsheet Formats"
1897:. Such spreadsheets can be used to reason
513:service; afterward, a version that ran on
4410:CICS history and introduction of IBM 3270
4271:"Fannie Mae Corrects Mistakes In Results"
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1849:In the late 1980s and early 1990s, first
1091:The main concepts are those of a grid of
848:enterprise-ready editions of LibreOffice.
548:IBM Financial Planning and Control System
493:In 1968, three former employees from the
4388:) is being considered for deletion. See
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1051:Target Planner Calc for CP/M and TRS-DOS
882:is free, open-source and cross platform.
168:and one of the applications provided in
148:now has the largest market share on the
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4009:"What We Know About Spreadsheet Errors"
3148:in Tempe, Arizona, May 2002, Web page:
3135:, DSSResources.COM, v3.6, 8 August 2004
3069:"Package of Features Added to Mark III"
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1966:Spreadsheets are versatile. With their
1107:can be thought of as a box for holding
342:Batch spreadsheet report generator BSRG
3826:Richard E. Blaustein (November 2009).
817:Notable current spreadsheet software:
702:Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet for IBM PC DOS
3075:. IDG Enterprise: 46. 30 August 1982.
2651:. Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
2559:
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1825:Many spreadsheet applications permit
175:A spreadsheet consists of a table of
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4372:Extending the Concept of Spreadsheet
3803:"Errors in Operational spreadsheets"
2187:Financial modeling § Accounting
634:. Significantly, it also turned the
4269:Jonathan Glater (30 October 2003).
2855:University of the State of New York
2228:University of Massachusetts Amherst
2096:much easier to implement and audit.
1734:is user-assigned, and the function
921:Discontinued spreadsheet software:
144:was the dominant operating system.
4218:"Spreadsheets and Capital Markets"
2727:Arrington, Michael (11 Oct 2006).
2264:Moving and copying in spreadsheets
2259:Comparison of spreadsheet software
560:and was the first application for
497:computer company headquartered in
195:, are gathered together to form a
25:
4392:to help reach a consensus. ›
4349:The Chronicle Of Higher Education
4298:Financial Times (18 March 2013).
4007:Raymond R. Panko (January 2005).
3698:"Circuit Design with Lotus 1-2-3"
3471:Journal of Functional Programming
3444:10.1038/scientificamerican0984-52
3037:, 28 May 1975, p19, Computerworld
2873:"A Brief History of Spreadsheets"
2026:Spreadsheets have evolved to use
1196:. It is analogous to an array of
892:'s spreadsheet software, part of
785:kit at its core, which grew from
595:United States Railway Association
364:Accounting and Analytical Methods
140:was the leading spreadsheet when
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4249:"Excel Financial Model Auditing"
3872:(2nd ed.). Addison-Wesley.
2983:"Rene Pardo – Personal Web Page"
2972: (Fed. Cir. 1996-04-26).
1970:and graphics capabilities, even
1821:Graph made using Microsoft Excel
836:for mobile and desktop apps are
714:. It was written especially for
312:Humans have organized data into
282:, which usually also contains a
3828:"Eliminating Spreadsheet Risks"
3125:A Brief History of Spreadsheets
2871:Power, D. J. (30 August 2004).
2528:Journal of Accounting Education
2442:Beal, Vangie (September 1996).
1772:writes values calculated using
1563:to other cells, such as, e.g.,
1460:containing the formula itself.
614:VisiCalc running on an Apple II
4416:Autoplan & Autotab article
4111:Kelion, Leo (5 October 2020).
3869:Professional Excel Development
2614:Lewis, Peter H. (1988-03-13).
2564:Higgins, Hannah (2009-01-01).
2300:of the developers' surnames, "
1945:Modern spreadsheets allow for
1845:Multi-dimensional spreadsheets
1364:Use of named column variables
1188:An array of cells is called a
871:Free Software Desktop Project.
735:released the first version of
674:to other computers, including
517:was introduced under the name
465:upheld that decision in 1996.
405:. This program was written in
1:
4323:The Guardian (4 April 2013).
4033:Is Excel Budgeting a Mistake?
3696:Haynes, John L. (Fall 1985).
3296:"Do Spreadsheets Mean Micros"
3052:INPUT Vendor Analysis Program
2540:10.1016/j.jaccedu.2014.09.001
1727:Visual Basic for Applications
1706:Use of user-defined function
164:, this is currently known as
50:, organization, analysis and
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3977:Philip Howard (2005-04-22).
3947:Sam Savage (February 2010).
3172:Whole Earth Software Catalog
2786:. Venice: Manutius. p.
2269:List of spreadsheet software
1744:editor supplied with Excel.
1646:is column-wise absolute and
1376:. Formula for y=x resembles
666:went on to become the first
4223:. June 2009. Archived from
2030:programming languages like
1921:Spreadsheets are a popular
758:List of online spreadsheets
528:AutoPlan/AutoTab was not a
501:set out to start their own
481:, and the first version of
447:LANPAR spreadsheet compiler
419:Washington State University
417:/67 timesharing machine at
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4366:comp.apps.spreadsheets FAQ
3920:Max Henrion (2004-07-14).
3665:10.1109/VLHCC.2015.7357211
3624:10.1109/VLHCC.2014.6883022
3204:. In Ellig, Jerome (ed.).
2626:The New York Times Company
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503:software development house
431:Business Computer Language
320:and astronomical records.
4714:
3832:Internal Auditor Magazine
3747:10.1109/TKDE.2015.2397440
3483:10.1017/S0956796800003828
2421:Dictionary.com Unabridged
1972:electronic circuit design
1901:about their cell values.
1893:expressions are known as
1889:expressions, rather than
1509:A formula identifies the
1384:shows the definitions of
606:VisiCalc for the Apple II
509:. "AutoPlan" ran on GE's
280:office productivity suite
158:office productivity suite
81:Besides performing basic
4390:templates for discussion
3508:. IEEE. pp. 48–57.
3146:Arizona State University
2948:887 F. Supp. 539
2241:Growth in a Time of Debt
1738:is introduced using the
824:is free and open-source.
589:APLDOT modeling language
297:graphical user interface
4422:Spreadsheets in Science
4073:"Spreadsheet Addiction"
3979:"Managing spreadsheets"
3777:. Accessed 25 June 2014
3169:Brand, Stewart (1989).
2604:. Accessed 25 June 2014
2296:, as "LANPAR is also a
2196:, the determination of
1977:Spreadsheets can store
1650:is row-wise absolute).
1285:directed acyclic graphs
1266:Automatic recalculation
337:Electronic spreadsheets
4093:. Office.microsoft.com
3336:"Improv and PowerStep"
3231:"Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3"
3054:. INPUT. August 1983.
2254:Attribute-value system
2049:comma-separated values
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1723:user-defined functions
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1259:functional programming
822:Apache OpenOffice Calc
793:Mainframe spreadsheets
615:
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87:mathematical functions
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4406:by Richard Mattessich
3514:10.1109/ASWEC.2014.15
2903:The Accounting Review
2185:Further information:
2134:Lack of auditing and
1997:"spreadsheet program"
1866:In these programs, a
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1567:for a single cell or
1497:function to find the
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1276:circular dependencies
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1215:A cell may contain a
1121:independent variables
1054:Trapeze for Macintosh
950:Forefront Corporation
875:Kingsoft Spreadsheets
834:Collabora Online Calc
779:Collabora Online Calc
712:IBM Personal Computer
680:Atari 8-bit computers
613:
454:U.S. patent 4,398,249
397:by R. Brian Walsh at
124:
91:financial accountancy
33:
4781:Spreadsheet software
4521:Proprietary freeware
4473:Free and open-source
3659:. pp. 159–163.
3381:"Linux Spreadsheets"
3284:. November 22, 1982.
2970:81 F.3d 1576
2758:personal.math.ubc.ca
2600:25 June 2017 at the
1990:Spreadsheet programs
1923:end-user development
1917:End-user development
1895:logical spreadsheets
1881:Logical spreadsheets
1597:relational operators
1575:arithmetic operators
1278:in a spreadsheet. A
1125:bijective numeration
1115:, are referenced in
706:The introduction of
622:, developed for the
399:Marquette University
288:presentation program
269:relational structure
228:of the calculation,
44:computer application
4776:American inventions
3575:Peyton Jones, Simon
3548:. 25 February 2019.
3436:1984SciAm.251c..52K
3424:Scientific American
3304:. December 6, 1982.
2899:Mattessich, Richard
2857:. 1968. p. 81.
2423:. Random House, Inc
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1634:), absolute (e.g.,
1248:Computer scientist
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1113:dependent variables
570:VM operating system
372:mainframe computers
244:the result will be
18:Spreadsheet Program
4755:Online spreadsheet
4651:IBM Lotus Symphony
4427:2020-01-17 at the
4275:The New York Times
4058:2009-01-26 at the
4038:2010-08-03 at the
3853:2011-01-18 at the
3848:unabridged version
3773:2022-01-28 at the
3704:. pp. 143–156
3608:. pp. 53–56.
3366:The New York Times
3155:2011-09-29 at the
3130:2021-05-06 at the
2217:c-level executives
2198:financial accounts
1947:secondary notation
1905:Programming issues
1823:
1804:Remote spreadsheet
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1621:, and many others.
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1200:in a conventional
1131:
966:IBM Lotus Symphony
859:WordPerfect Office
813:Other spreadsheets
768:online and offline
690:SuperCalc for CP/M
668:killer application
616:
579:financial planning
562:financial planning
360:Richard Mattessich
308:Paper spreadsheets
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4368:by Russell Schulz
3879:978-0-321-50879-9
3674:978-1-4673-7457-6
3633:978-1-4799-4035-6
3579:Burnett, Margaret
3523:978-1-4799-3149-1
3467:Burnett, Margaret
3391:on 6 August 2002.
3215:978-0-521-78250-0
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2162:quality assurance
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1469:in various ways.
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636:personal computer
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