what is spreadsheets?

Answer 1

Spreadsheets are Microsoft Excel Files. Usually ending with .xls

Answer 2

A spreadsheet is what Microsoft Excel offers, as previously stated, but there are other spreadsheet programs as well. A spreadsheet allows you to do mathematical calculations, among other things. Businesses may use them to keep their accounting records, print reports, etc. I personally use them for this purpose-our monthly income and expenses. They can also be used as a sort of database...I work in a library and am making an inventory in Microsoft Excel. The records are easier to work with than in word. You can delete a record, without having to delete everything. You can make reports. You can do many things with a spreadsheet. It is made up of cells in columns and rows. You can type stuff into the cells and it can be text, numbers, accounting, percentages, dates, etc. You can use formulas to add up the total of a column or an average, or whatever you want. You can click on the chart button and make a pie, bar, or line chart of the data you've entered. Etc. Etc. Does that help?

Answer 3

The first two replies are actually inaccurate. While Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application, a spreadsheet is by no means Microsoft Excel. There are many spreadsheet applications, such as openoffice (www.openoffice.org).

Wikipedia defines spreadsheet as:
A spreadsheet is a rectangular table (or grid) of information, often financial information. The word came from "spread" in its sense of a newspaper or magazine item (text and/or graphics) that covers two facing pages, extending across the center fold and treating the two pages as one large one. The compound word "spread-sheet" came to mean the format used to present bookkeeping 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 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 ruled into rows and columns in that format and approximately twice as wide as ordinary paper.

Answer 4

A spreadsheet is a program that allows you to mix text, math and calculations. It will figure percentages, averages, add-subtract-multiply & divide, produce pie charts and bar charts, and a variety of other things not available in ordinary word processing programs. Microsoft Office has Excel in its Office suite, but Office is expensive. Sun's Open Office suite has a spreadsheet program that is free and very good.

Answer 5

A spreadsheet is a software package that allows you to easily organize data into rows and columns.

Answer 6

spreadsheets is basically microsoft excel

Answer 7

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