Technology Integration
Spreadsheets
What are they?
A spreadsheet is a rectangular table (or grid) of information, often financial information. (It is, therefore, a kind of matrix.) 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. ...
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A computer program that allows the user to enter numbers and text into a table with rows and columns, and then maintain and manipulate those numbers using the table structure.
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A computer program used to store and calculate information in a structured array of data cells. By defining relationships between information in cells, a user can see the effects of certain data changes on other data in other parts of the spreadsheet. Spreadsheet software is one of the oldest and most popular applications on PCs.
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A specific type of database program made up of rows and columns. This is used as an electronic spreadsheet or bookkeeper. Spreadsheet programs have mathematical functions built in to manipulate the figures after you have entered them.
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