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The Story Behind the Spreadsheet Program
In 1978, a Harvard Business student named Dan Bricklin got tired of adding up columns of numbers – and adding them up again after making a few changes – just to assess the effect of the merger. Bricklin, who knew little about computers from summer jobs at Wang and other firms, came up with the idea of a spreadsheet program running on a personal computer.
Bricklin’s teachers together with a programmer friend, Bob Frankston, produced Visicalc. It is a program for apple II computer. This marks an important new chapter in American enterprise, the Electronic spreadsheet. (more…)
Lecture 1 EXCEL
Starting Excel
Excel is a spreadsheet program that can help you create worksheets and invoices and do simple and sophisticated number crunching; it is designed to help you calculate the results of formulas and help you organize and analyze numerical data.
To start Excel from the Windows desktop, follow these steps:
1. Click the Start button, and the Start menu appears.
2. Point at All Programs (in Windows XP; in Windows 2000 select Programs), and the Programs menu appears.
3. Select the Microsoft Office program group and then Microsoft Office Excel 2003 to start the program.
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