Tables Reloaded

If you have ever used Windows before moving to the Mac, or you are still using it for various tasks, then you must have heard of Microsoft's Excel. No matter if we like it or not (just for the record, I don't), spreadsheets are a part of the computing world that a large mass of people get to use. Before moving on and checking today's spreadsheet application, let's find out more about what is a spreadsheet.

A spreadsheet is a rectangular table or grid of information, and in most cases you'll find spreadsheets used to manage financial information. The computer implementations of the spreadsheets started to appear in the seventies, and their number continued to grow. A really amazing fact is that, before Microsoft launched its notorious Office suite, they ported Excel from another operating system to Windows 3.1, and that operating system was... Mac OS! Really interesting, don't you think?

Well, getting back to the days we're living now, I must tell you that Daniel Schwill announced the release of Tables 1.1, a new spreadsheet application for Mac OS X today, and this hot version of the program offers enhanced export capabilities (Excel XLS documents are supported) , the ability to format a cell as "text only" using the new format type "Text", fill multiple cells with the same content or populate them by using the new series functionality, access functions quickly using context menus for cells, column header, row header and graphics.

The program has a lot of other useful features and comes as a Universal Binary, costs 39 Euros and requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later to run.