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Why Can’t We Have A Footer On Spreadsheets? [XLVII]

Or… A trip down history lane of spreadsheets

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• Visicalc
• Lotus 1–2–3
• Microsoft Excel
• Apple Numbers
• Google Sheets

Spreadsheets used to be all the same — you have a grid of cells for as much as your computer memory could hold.

Google and Apple Numbers stopped doing that — so you could have a spreadsheet with only 10 rows or 8 columns if you wanted

The first real innovation that I became aware of was Apple Numbers, which allowed multiple different spreadsheets in one document and also Footer rows — which, like header rows, would be kept in place:

I mainly use Google Sheets now for the powerful =QUERY() function, but I do miss having a footer.

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