Quattro Pro v4

Quattro Pro v4 is a mature DOS spreadsheet application from Borland, designed for serious number crunching and business work at a time when spreadsheets were becoming indispensable PC tools. It provides rows, columns, formulas, calculations, and the sort of financial functionality that could turn a modest computer into a surprisingly useful office workstation. The interface is keyboard-oriented and compact, reflecting the practical design philosophy of the period. Once you learn the commands, however, working with a spreadsheet can be remarkably efficient. Quattro Pro was a major competitor in the spreadsheet market, and version 4 represents a period when DOS spreadsheet software had become sophisticated enough for demanding professional use. It may lack the colorful charts and endless menus of modern applications, but it also lacks their tendency to turn a simple calculation into a small software project. Sometimes a grid full of numbers is exactly what you need.