> "A spreadsheet is an interactive computer application for organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form." By wikipedia's definition, the applica

> "A spreadsheet is an interactive computer application for organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form." By wikipedia's definition, the application Excel is the spreadsheet. I wouldn't call Excel.exe an organised collection of data. On the other hand, the relevant articles also state " A spreadsheet may also refer to one such electronic document" and "the term "database" is often used casually to refer to both a database and the DBMS used to manipulate it." I think we both know the parent's point -- Spreadsheet applications aren't general purpose database management systems; and most databases can't be cleanly implemented as spreadsheet documents.