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  Spreadsheet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Those spreadsheet programs can be used to tabulate many kinds of information, not just financial records, so the term "spreadsheet" has developed a more general meaning as information presented in a rectangular table, usually generated by a computer.
Spreadsheets qualify as programming languages because all or most of them are Turing complete, except for the obvious memory/storage issue, which all real programming languages fail too; they can do loops via cyclic dependencies, and have more than enough logic.
It is often convenient to think of a spreadsheet as a mathematical graph, where the nodes are spreadsheet cells, and the edges are references to other cells specified in formulas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spreadsheet   (1391 words)

  
 Linux Spreadsheets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Spreadsheet and word processor software is of particular interest to those that wish to see Linux more widely adopted for use in office applications.
In a traditional spreadsheet, a formula is associated with a cell, and in order to have a particular formula apply to many cells, you must copy the formula into that range of cells.
Spreadsheets provide few facilities for documentation, and although the structure of a spreadsheet program is implicit in the cell equations, it cannot be made explicit as it would if programmed in a conventional programming language.
www.ntlug.org /~cbbrowne/spreadsheets.html   (4096 words)

  
 Spreadsheet Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Most spreadsheets allow iterative recalculation in the presence of these cyclic dependencies, whch can be either directly controlled by a user or which stop when threshold conditions are reached.
The computerized spreadsheet was invented by Pardo and Landau, who applied for a patent on it in 1970.
The spreadsheet concept was reinvented by Dan Bricklin.
www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/spreadsheet.html   (838 words)

  
 Online Spreadsheet Software - i-Spreadsheet
The program is useful for displaying and editing an excel like spreadsheet that multiple users need to edit.
i-Spreadsheet is meant to be semi-interactive to the user/visitor and much more interactive to the administrators.
The spreadsheet can also be used an online sign up sheet for people to sign up for appointments, volunteer positions, golf tee times etc online.
web.peoriadesignweb.com /spreadsheet   (375 words)

  
 Spreadsheet
You move around the spreadsheet by using the arrow keys or the mouse, highlighting one cell at a time with the fl outline.
A nice spreadsheet is a gorgeous thing to behold: it is symmetrical, it is powerful, and it is just packed with information.
The spreadsheet is an amazingly potent tool for analyzing and presenting information of so many varieties -- not just numbers.
www.doctorgus.net /spreadsheet.htm   (1225 words)

  
 Spreadsheet
We have found quite a lot of interesting things to do in spreadsheet for our grades three through five students, and all of them are better managed in a lab setting.
This is a simple spreadsheet activity that I do with my 5th graders to introduce them to spreadsheet concepts while reinforcing basics about the Civil War.
Then the students had the spreadsheet calculate the average for each color, and finally, they created a chart of the averages by linking to the cells with the formula.
www.fi.edu /fellows/fellow4/may99/spreadsheet.html   (1152 words)

  
 Pinewood Derby Spreadsheet
The spreadsheet is setup for a 3-lane (or 4-lane) track, with the lanes are labeled A, B, and C. Cars are numbered and divided into groups of between 6 and 15 cars.
If you use the newer versions of the spreadsheet, racer names will be listed by the car numbers.
Spreadsheets that include racers names are Pine3n.XLS and Pine4n.XLS.
home1.gte.net /chris.sutton/pine.htm   (672 words)

  
 What is spreadsheet? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
Spreadsheet applications (sometimes referred to simply as spreadsheets) are computer programs that let you create and manipulate spreadsheets electronically.
There are a number of spreadsheet applications on the market, Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel being among the most famous.
A three-dimensional spreadsheet, for example, is like a stack of spreadsheets all connected by formulas.
www.webopedia.com /TERM/s/spreadsheet.html   (475 words)

  
 Home Page
Spreadsheet Professional is the standard tool used by all of the world's major accountancy firms, and over 6,000 other organisations around the world for the professional development of spreadsheet models
Spreadsheet Professional is an Excel Addin that has been designed to radically reduce the costs of developing spreadsheet and increasing their quality by:
Spreadsheet Professional is the only product that has been designed explicitly to eliminate them.
www.spreadsheetinnovations.com   (228 words)

  
 Clarion Central
The powerful native spreadsheet editing of Excel™ is automatically integrated by the Spreadsheet Wizard.
Use a simple, intuitive interface to quickly create and save an unlimited number of spreadsheet layouts which may be dynamically populated with data at any time.
This dialog is the second of three steps and is composed of three options which allow the user to determine the spreadsheet's initial sort order.
www.clarioncentral.com /ClarionTools/SpreadWizard/spreadsheetWizard.htm   (303 words)

  
 Spreadsheet Terminology
the cell in a spreadsheet application in which data may be entered.
the space on a spreadsheet where a column and row intersect.
Columns of numbers in a spreadsheet program can be added automatically.
www.rcs.k12.va.us /bles/spreadsh.htm   (160 words)

  
 Spreadsheet errors, news stories about spreadsheets with costly mistakes
But when she made the change, the spreadsheet program moved the line for the lease, not just for the proposed 2004-05 year, but also the figures for the adopted 2003-04 figure, the actual 2002-03 year, and the two previous fiscal years' actual expenditures for the lease.
A spreadsheet error had caused the wrong cost to be input into the system, with the result that their gross margin had slipped without management knowing.
Although this spreadsheet error was corrected in June 2001 and the $9.5 million was transferred to the General Fund, internal controls are still weak.
www.eusprig.org /stories.htm   (11603 words)

  
 Brief History of Spreadsheets, v. 3.6
In the realm of accounting jargon a "spread sheet" or spreadsheet was and is a large sheet of paper with columns and rows that organizes data about transactions for a business person to examine.
The market for electronic spreadsheet software was growing rapidly in the early 1980s and VisiCalc stakeholders were slow to respond to the introduction of the IBM PC that used an Intel computer chip.
Excel was one of the first spreadsheets to use a graphical interface with pull down menus and a point and click capability using a mouse pointing device.
dssresources.com /history/sshistory.html   (2314 words)

  
 Spreadsheet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
After having computed the values of all formulas, your program should output the resulting spreadsheet where all formulas have been replaced by their value.
A spreadsheet starts with a line consisting of two integer numbers, separated by a space, giving the number of columns and rows.
The output of your program should have the same format as the input, except that the number of spreadsheets and the number of columns and rows are not repeated.
acm.uva.es /p/v1/196.html   (393 words)

  
 The Spreadsheet
The spreadsheet is important to you because it is the only place in EZ-CAM in which you can activate/deactivate or delete previously defined Work Steps.
The spreadsheet is always there when you need it.
One way of making the spreadsheet visible is to select the Show spreadsheet command from the Machining menu.
www.ezcam.com /web/products/help/ezmill/ezcam_screen/the_spreadsheet_screen.htm   (195 words)

  
 Calc
You can be your own spreadsheet expert thanks to templates with built-in functions, allowing you to concentrate on your real work.
Of course, you are free to use your old Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, or save your work in Excel format for sending to people who are still locked into Microsoft products.
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www.openoffice.org /product/calc.html   (351 words)

  
 European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group - spreadsheet errors research and solutions conference
As a result of this meeting an interest group was founded, dedicated to increasing awareness of spreadsheet risk amongst academia and industry and to promoting research regarding the extent and nature of the problem, methods of prevention and detection of errors and methods of limiting damage.
Spreadsheet Auditing for Free (1.56Mb pdf) by Ray Butler presentation to ISACA Northern UK Jan 2006.
The Importance and Criticality of Spreadsheets in the City of London (187K pdf) by Grenville Croll presented at Eusprig 2005.
www.eusprig.org   (1258 words)

  
 comp.apps.spreadsheets FAQ
Obscure: Free spreadsheets, and source code 15.1 sc Spreadsheet Calculator SimTel: sc621.zip http://simtel.coast.net/Coast/msdos/spredsht.html [defunct] http://simtel.coast.net/cgi-bin/coast/dwn?msdos/spredsht/sc621_3.zip ftp://ftp.coast.net/Coast/msdos/spredsht/sc621.zip [defunct] http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/gnuish/sc621.zip 15.1.1 ss interface additions to sc 6.2.1 by: Art Mulder (art.mulder@ualberta.ca) latest version: 1.3.3 http://www.ualberta.ca/~amulder/ss/ [error 1999/Apr/10] 15.1.2 xspread xspread was based on sc.
In addition to most spreadsheet things, it includes: optional logging of user actions, a full programming language and access to all internal functions, and some existing functions for HCI design work.
The newsgroup readers have a LOT more spreadsheet experience than I ever will (unless I multiply myself by a few thousand, which is not legal with today's tax laws).
www.faqs.org /faqs/spreadsheets/faq   (4853 words)

  
 Spreadsheet
Overview Spreadsheet software is widely used, not only by accountants and finance professionals, but also by the home-computer user.
Spreadsheets are used for a range of activities from organizational tasks to complex accounting tasks.
Due to frequent usage, people have access to specific spreadsheet topic discussions, tutorials and even spreadsheet joke pages to help relieve the frustration of working with these tools on a regular basis.
www.infoweblinks.com /content/spreadsheet.htm   (420 words)

  
 LT Technologies - Spreadsheet Resources
Introduces students to the concept of graphing, record color distribution in spreadsheet format, and utilize information obtained through hands-on research and analysis to write a research report.
Students are presented with a fun story problem in order to learn to solve problems using a spreadsheet in combination with problem-solving strategies and simple algebraic variables.
Using a spreadsheet as a tool for analyzing and visualizing, students discover new ways of solving mathematical problems.
lttechno.com /links/spreadsheets.html   (1212 words)

  
 TrimSpreadsheet - TrimPath - Trac
Spreadsheets are stored as HTML markup, so it's easy to understand and embed into your own web pages.
Merely assign a class of "spreadsheet" to your , and the TrimSpreadsheet engine will do the rest.
TrimSpreadsheet follows unobtrusive JavaScript design principles, so a spreadsheet is as simple as an HTML .
trimpath.com /project/wiki/TrimSpreadsheet   (266 words)

  
 Spreadsheets in Education
This page tries to collect some information about spreadsheets with an emphasis on mathematics and statistics education.
The book includes examples and a floppy disk with Excel spreadsheets, as well as visual basic for applications code for almost any option pricing formula used in practice.
Spreadsheets as Generators of New Meanings in Middle School Algebra.
sunsite.univie.ac.at /Spreadsite/spreaded.html   (954 words)

  
 Excel Spreadsheet Charts
We are going to use a different spreadsheet for this section of the tutorial thus allowing you to make the changes on the Prisoner vs Student Cost 1995 chart if you want to practice this section.
After having created an embedded chart, editing requires clicking on a blank space on the chart to make it active (be sure and do not have a specific chart element selected unless you want to make changes to that element) and to display the chart edit tool bar.
A thick border will appear around the chart and the chart menu bar will appear floating on top of your spreadsheet window (see the graphic with step 8 in of Creating a Chart).
www.csubak.edu /~jross/classes/GS390/Spreadsheets/ExcelCharts/CreateChart.htm   (1776 words)

  
 Open Directory - Computers: Software: Spreadsheets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group - Promotes research regarding the extent and nature of the problem of spreadsheet risks.
Spreadsheet Tools and Their Producers - List of spreadsheets tools and books and their authors.
Spreadsheets Frequently Asked Questions - FAQ of the comp.apps.spreadsheets usenet newsgroup.
www.dmoz.org /Computers/Software/Spreadsheets   (271 words)

  
 VisAD Visualization SpreadSheet
The SpreadSheet is made up of multiple spreadsheet cells, much like "traditional" spreadsheet programs, except that each cell is capable of displaying a data object (which can be read from a file or computed from other cells).
In any case, the SpreadSheet will attempt to identify what kind of data it is, then load it into the current cell.
Note especially that if the SpreadSheet fails to load a data file, chances are that the SpreadSheet is not at fault, but rather the corresponding VisAD data form is not yet advanced enough to handle that specific data file.
www.ssec.wisc.edu /~curtis/ss.html   (1457 words)

  
 Federal Income Tax Form 1040 (Excel 5.0 Spreadsheet) Income Tax Calculator - Free!
These spreadsheets are provided "as is", with no warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, and in no event will Glenn Reeves be liable for direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the use of any of these spreadsheets.
These spreadsheets attempt to perform the mechanics of tax preparation in accordance with IRS forms and instructions.
I had some minor problems with the spreadsheet but when I reported my issues, the responses were quick and always there with an answer.
home.mchsi.com /~taxcalculator   (1710 words)

  
 Spreadsheet - xxl
Xxl is a free graphical spreadsheet developed at the University of Nice for Unix platforms.
The aim of xxl is not to compete with commercial spreadsheets.
Xxl should be a stable experimental platform for future studies, in order to propose a reflexion and to define tools for a new spreadsheet generation, more simple and secure to use.
www.esinsa.unice.fr /xxl.html   (283 words)

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