Modern spreadsheet software can have multiple interacting sheets and can display data either as text and numerals or in graphical form. This makes the spreadsheet useful for 'what-if' analysis since many cases can be rapidly investigated without manual recalculation. Spreadsheet users can adjust any stored value and observe the effects on calculated values. The term spreadsheet may also refer to one such electronic document. Each cell may contain either numeric or text data, or the results of formulas that automatically calculate and display a value based on the contents of other cells. The program operates on data entered in cells of a table. Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. Computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form Example of a spreadsheet holding data about a group of audio tracks.Ī spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form.
