A screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen.
In computing, a program that mimics a sheet of ruled paper, divided into columns and rows. The user enters values in the sheet, then instructs the program to perform some operation on them, such as totaling a column or finding the average of a series of numbers.
Highly complex numerical analyses may be built up from these simple steps.
Spreadsheets are widely used in business for forecasting and financial control. The first spreadsheet program, Software Arts' VisiCalc, appeared 1979. The best known include Lotus 1–2–3 and Microsoft Excel. + prikaži više