Points to Remember: Introduction to Spreadsheet

Points to Remember:

·           Spreadsheet is a very useful office automation tool for organization, analysis and storage of data in a tabular form.

·           Daniel Bricklin and Bob Frankston developed the first spreadsheet software called “VisiCalc” in 1979 for Apple II.

·           OpenOffice Calc is popular open source spreadsheet application software presently maintained by Apache Foundation.

·           A worksheet is a grid of cells with a programmable calculator attached to each cell.

·           OpenOffice Calc version 4.1.5 contains a total of 1024 columns and 10,48,576 rows.

·           Intersection of every row and column makes a box which is called as “Cell”.

·           Cell pointer is a rectangle element which can be moved around the worksheet.

·           The cell in which the cell pointer is currently located is known as “Active cell”.

·           All formula should start with an equal sign.

·           There are four types operators supported by calc.