An
electronic spreadsheet is a computer program that allows you to organize and calculate data in a grid-like format. It's like a digital version of a paper spreadsheet, where you can input numbers, create formulas, and perform calculations easily.
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Interactive resources, such as online practices tests with feedback,
electronic spreadsheet files in mathematics, and audio files for language class, may be available only in electronic form.
Business users who have neither fluency
with electronic spreadsheets nor time to learn the programs can now add on to them preformatted applications, which are available on disks from independent software publishers.
Computer veteran Speake
calls electronic spreadsheets perfect for «quick and dirty» solutions, systems analyst jargon for programs that can be easily thrown together although they may lack sophisticated error - detecting features of custom - written software.
Handle the tasks of analyzing and investigating confidential information by
using electronic spreadsheets, computer databases, GIS / mapping software, and criminal intelligence software applications
Businesspeople who have experience
with electronic spreadsheets can make them even more useful by buying so - called utility programs, which are available on disks.
I'm an entrepreneur myself; I was CEO of Software Arts, the startup that created VisiCalc, the
first electronic spreadsheet, and I'm no daredevil.
The law firms using this mass production technique get
an electronic spreadsheet from the creditor — typically a bank or credit card company — that lists a person's name, address, Social Security number and amount owed.
The program creates
an electronic spreadsheet on the machine's display screen: Once the user has defined all of the assumptions for the projection, he can change any variable and the program will automatically recalculate any related values.
Gaston allots one row of
the electronic spreadsheet to each revenue source; at the end of every business day, he simply enters the latest sales figures.
Brewer suspects the delay has to do with transferring paper records to
electronic spreadsheets, but doesn't think it's a legit excuse: «My interns could do it in five minutes.»
Low Tech to High Tech: The team's financial analyst enters block - by - block planning decisions into
an electronic spreadsheet and then calculates tax revenues, job creation, and investor profitability.
Matt Homann: In his post, «Ten Law Firms that Wouldn't Hire Me Out of Law School,» Homann writes that «you can order
an electronic spreadsheet or subscribe to American Lawyer to see the other 90 firms that wouldn't have hired me either.»
Instead of manual spreadsheets you can always track your accounts on
electronic spreadsheets.
Related Coursework: • Word Processing • Desktop Publishing • Business Communication •
Electronic Spreadsheets • Records and Information Management • Office Administration