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Other Spreadsheets - Tips for Other Spreadsheets

If you are looking for an alternative to Excel, here you will find basic information for programs such as Google Spreadsheets, Microsoft Works Spreadsheets, OpenOffice Calc, EditGrid, and others. Read software reviews, tips and shortcuts, and follow step by step tutorials to help you create effective and professional looking spreadsheets.
Free Spreadsheet Tutorials
Listed here are tutorials on free spreadsheet programs such as Google Spreadsheets and OpenOffice Calc. The tutorials are also free. The tutorials cover a wide variety of topics related to creating and using a spreadsheet.
Beginners Guide to Microsoft Works Spreadsheets
Beginners Guide to Microsoft Works Spreadsheets is a series of articles and tutorials for the absolute beginner. Learn about the parts of the Microsoft Works Spreadsheets screen, how to enter data, how to use formulas and functions in spreadsheets, adding and removing columns and rows, how to create charts, and how to use the program's format options.
EditGrid Online Spreadsheets Review
EditGrid spreadsheets may look like other programs when you start it up - but its not. It has most of the features of other speadsheets - like formulas, functions, and charts, but it also has something extra. EditGrid is one of the new "Web2" apps that lets you collaborate and share information over the Internet in real time. Read the review and then go give this interesting new web app a try.
An Introduction to OpenOffice Calc Spreadsheets
OpenOffice Calc is a spreadsheet program that is part of the free OpenOffice.org suite. OpenOffice Calc's tools and capabilities are similar to those of other spreadsheets. This introduction to the program covers the parts of the screen and the basic tools available in the program.
OpenOffice Calc Spreadsheets Tutorials
Calc is a full featured spreadsheet program made available free of charge by OpenOffice.org. The tutorials on this site (you are required to take out a free membership to use the program) take the user right from installing Calc, through using complex formulas and functions, to printing and sharing spreadsheets.
Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheets: A Review of the Original Release
Spreadsheets hold an important place in the history of personal computers. They were the first business applications developed for the PC. There hasn't been a new version of Lotus 1-2-3 for awhile, but this program pioneered many features we take for granted in modern spreadsheets. Find out what the original version of Lotus 1-2-3 offered in this 1982 review reprinted from Byte magazine.
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