top | item 9844498 (no title) Donch | 10 years ago *sheethttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViewSheet discuss order hn newest jacquesm|10 years ago Yes, sheet was pretty good. (As was word!), but Excel really had the edge there, even when it first came out.It's the one product by MS that stood out as being best-in-class straight from day one. pjc50|10 years ago .. by being a careful GUI clone of the existing successful product, Lotus 1-2-3. Right down to being largely formula-compatible and having the same hotkeys. That's why F2 is "edit current cell". agumonkey|10 years ago Excel was so nice I wrote my documents in it. I wonder how much of Microsoft was built on its fame. batou|10 years ago It was ok until I lost the function key strip :) jacquesm|10 years ago http://rayharper.co.uk/acorn/bbc_images/fn_key_strips.pdf load replies (1)
jacquesm|10 years ago Yes, sheet was pretty good. (As was word!), but Excel really had the edge there, even when it first came out.It's the one product by MS that stood out as being best-in-class straight from day one. pjc50|10 years ago .. by being a careful GUI clone of the existing successful product, Lotus 1-2-3. Right down to being largely formula-compatible and having the same hotkeys. That's why F2 is "edit current cell". agumonkey|10 years ago Excel was so nice I wrote my documents in it. I wonder how much of Microsoft was built on its fame.
pjc50|10 years ago .. by being a careful GUI clone of the existing successful product, Lotus 1-2-3. Right down to being largely formula-compatible and having the same hotkeys. That's why F2 is "edit current cell".
agumonkey|10 years ago Excel was so nice I wrote my documents in it. I wonder how much of Microsoft was built on its fame.
batou|10 years ago It was ok until I lost the function key strip :) jacquesm|10 years ago http://rayharper.co.uk/acorn/bbc_images/fn_key_strips.pdf load replies (1)
jacquesm|10 years ago
It's the one product by MS that stood out as being best-in-class straight from day one.
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