Contents • • • • • • • • Characteristics [ ] Historically, Quattro Pro used keyboard commands close to. While it is commonly said to have been the first program to use, actually utilized tabbed sheets earlier. It currently runs under the Windows operating system. For years Quattro Pro had a comparative advantage, in regard to maximum row and column limits, (allowing a maximum worksheet size of one million rows by 18,276 columns). This avoided the 65,536 row by 256 column spreadsheet limitations inherent to Microsoft Excel (prior to Excel 2007). Even with the maximum row advantage, Quattro Pro has been a distant second to Excel, in regard to the number of sales, since approximately 1996 to the present. [ ] When version 1.0 was in development, it was codenamed 'Buddha' since it was meant to 'assume the position', #1 in the market.
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[ ] When the product was launched in 1988, its original name, suggested to Mr. Kahn by Senior VP, Spencer Leyton at a Vietnamese restaurant in Santa Cruz, was Quattro (the word for 'four', a play on being one step ahead of '1-2-3'). [ ] Borland changed the name to Quattro Pro for its 1990 release. The common file extension of Quattro Pro spreadsheet file is.qpw, which it has used since version 9. Quattro Pro versions 7 and 8 used.wb3, version 6 used.wb2, version 5 used.wb1, and DOS versions used.wq2 and.wq1. Origins [ ] The original Borland Quattro electronic spreadsheet was a DOS program, the initial development of which was done by three Eastern Europeans, one of whom, Lajos Frank, was later hired by Microsoft.