Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A software interface consisting of an interactive grid made up of cells in which data or formulas are entered for analysis or presentation.
- noun A piece of paper with rows and columns for recording financial data for use in comparative analysis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A
sheet ofpaper , marked with agrid , in whichfinancial data isrecorded andtotals calculated manually . - noun computing A
computer simulation of such asystem of recordingtabular data, with totals and otherformulas calculatedautomatically .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen
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Examples
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As the spreader wends its way through the fields, the amount of fertilizer sprayed is controlled by the computer (giving new meaning to the term spreadsheet).
How Green Is My Acre 2008
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Brings me back to the heady days of new software categories, when hundreds of column-inches in Byte were devoted to explaining what a spreadsheet is and why anyone would use it.
Boing Boing: October 27, 2002 - November 2, 2002 Archives 2002
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The easy way to post your spreadsheet is to convert it to a PDF and post it that way.
Why haven’t I received my review copies yet? Part II « The Book Publicity Blog 2009
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Boonton, your spreadsheet is extremely sensitive to the rate of pay increases.
Defending Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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One important thing about my spreadsheet is that each sheet includes not only past submissions but future ones.
3/14/08: My submission tracking process kmckiernan 2008
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It would work just like a built-in spreadsheet function except the call would go out over the net, run the procedure on the indicated server, and display the value it returns, formatted according to how the spreadsheet author says it should be formatted.
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However, the problem with a spreadsheet is if you have multiple people editing the same spreadsheet it can get very messy and thats exactly where the real time update ability on Google Spreadsheet comes to the fore.
2006 June « Squash 2006
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Last night, I read a post somewhere explaining why an online spreadsheet is so much more difficult than an online word processor.
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However, the problem with a spreadsheet is if you have multiple people editing the same spreadsheet it can get very messy and thats exactly where the real time update ability on Google Spreadsheet comes to the fore.
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Speaking of Zoho, I was well pleased to hear that the Zoho spreadsheet is on its way.
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