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Accounting Technology, September, 2006 by Antoinette Alexander

The old adage, "If you can't beat them, join them," apparently also holds true for Microsoft Excel, as software developers of all varieties are implementing features that make their products look more like the universally used spreadsheet program. Coupled with the increasing ability to integrate with Excel and other Microsoft Office products such as Word, adoption of the familiar worksheet interface is designed to make learning other applications easier.

"There is acceptance of anything that looks like Excel or works with Excel," says Jo Ann Cummings, product manager for CCH's ProSystem fx Tax. Since its debut in 1987 (Excel 2.0 for Windows), the spreadsheet program has grown into one of the world's most widely used software packages. According to a Microsoft spokesperson,...

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