
Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition v14
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When you perform a Google search on "how to use a spreadsheet" you will get about 78 million responses, as shown in the following search:
The reasons why people use a spreadsheet vary but we can slim the list down to the following:
It's easy to use
It performs simple and complex math easily and quickly
It has many tools to make it look presentable
I can make it look exactly the way I want
The spreadsheet program has turned into a data manipulation and presentation tool.
Spreadsheets have a variety of uses; we have all seen them. It is the "one tool does it all" program on every computer in the world. It seems to be the tool of choice even when other tools are better suited or designed for a specific task.
Spreadsheets have been used for the following:
Word processing
Flowcharts
Database storage
Presentations
Games
And anything else you can think of.
As discussed in the previous chapter there are many layers of communication. Spreadsheets have the ability to capture layer one...
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