A spreadsheet is a common productivity application that is used for laying out data in a grid and performing operations on the rows and columns of data.

The first spreadsheet, VisiCalc eventually led to a number of spreadsheet applications and the creation of the category, currently dominated by [[Microsoft]]'s proprietary spreadsheet application Excel that is part of Microsoft Office.

[[OpenOffice]], the principle open source alternative, [[OpenOffice Calc|includes includes a spreadsheet]] spreadsheet as does [[KOffice]] ([[KSpread]]). For [[Gnome]] (or [[Windows]]), there is also [[Gnumeric]].

A spreadsheet is a common productivity application that is used for laying out data in a grid and performing operations on the rows and columns of data.

The first spreadsheet, VisiCalc eventually led to a number of spreadsheet applications and the creation of the category, currently dominated by [[Microsoft]]'s Microsoft's proprietary spreadsheet application Excel that is part of Microsoft Office.

[[OpenOffice]], the principle open source alternative, includes a spreadsheet as does [[KOffice]] ([[KSpread]]). For [[Gnome]] Gnome (or [[Windows]]), Windows), there is also [[Gnumeric]].