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Interesting how far spreadsheets have come since 1983 and, just as interesting, how much presentation tools and techniques have changed in the same time period!
by gdcohen 7y ago
Interesting how far spreadsheets have come since 1983 and, just as interesting, how much presentation tools and techniques have changed in the same time period!
- ghaff 7y agoPresentation tools have changed much more than spreadsheets. Mid-80s Lotus 1-2-3 is perfectly adequate for anything I use a spreadsheet for today given I don’t use pivot tables or macros. By contrast, presentation software in Windows (and to some degree Mac) was fundamentally different. Various DOS and other programs of the same era were basically just a way to create some bullet points and graphs. Functional but not much more.
- DEADBEEFC0FFEE 7y agoA lot of what makes Excel fantastic are the quality of life changes. The data capabilities, the formatting options, the formula auditing. Simply being able to convert to table is a absolute massive time saver.
- WoodenChair 7y agoFor a look at this, checkout the book Sweating Bullets by the creator of Powerpoint: https://amzn.to/2IOfGE9 https://amzn.to/2IOfGE9