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Dan Bricklin is known as the ‘Father of the
Electronic Spreadsheet’. In 1978, he gave
the idea of an interactive visible calculator.

Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston then co-
invented the software Visicalc (similar to MS
Excel) which was the first spreadsheet
application for personal computers.

Dan Bricklin Bob Frankston

Starting Excel 2016

To start Excel 2016.

1. Open the Start menu by clicking the Start button.

A list of many applications will appear in the Start menu.

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2. Select the Excel 2016 from the list and click on it.

The Excel 2016 window will appear with a Start screen.

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