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Microsoft Office Excel 2003

1. What do you mean by a spreadsheet? What are its features?

Ans.: A spreadsheet is an electronic counterpart of a paper ledger sheet that helps to maintain records and perform calculations. The records may be of different types such as related to accounting information, daily expenses, salary sheet, etc. Before the advent of spreadsheet, such records and calculations were implemented in notebooks and registers and it was very much time-consuming. However, with the advancement of computer into our daily lives, spreadsheets became the popular form of maintaining records by replacing the manual method.

It is used to organize information in a rectangular grid that consists of columns (designated by letters) and rows ...

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