The eventual joint company effort, named Borland Office for Windows ( a combination of the WordPerfect word processor, Quattro Pro spreadsheet and Paradox database ) was introduced at the 1993 Comdex computer show.

With open software specifications and the possibility of software licensing, new opportunities arose for software tools that then became the de facto standard, such as DOS for operating systems, but also various proprietary word processing and spreadsheet programs.

User software include spreadsheet templates and word processor templates.

Academic institutions are subscribing to electronic journals databases, providing research and scholarly writing software, and usually provide computer workstations or computer labs for students to access journals, library search databases and portals, institutional electronic resources, internet access, and course-or task-related software ( i. e. word processing and spreadsheet software ).

Traditionally, requirements are specified in requirements documents ( e. g. using word processing applications and spreadsheet applications ).

A spreadsheet program is one of the main components of an office productivity suite, which usually also contain a word processor, a presentation program, and a database management system.

The QL was also bundled with an office suite ( word processor, spreadsheet, database, and graphics ) written by Psion.

A companion spreadsheet, CalcStar, was also produced using a somewhat WordStar-like interface ; collectively, WordStar ( word processing ), DataStar / ReportStar ( database management, a. k. a. InfoStar ), and CalcStar ( spreadsheet ) composed the first-ever office suite of personal computer programs.

Many third-party interactive applications have been written for it, such as the Dynacalc spreadsheet, the VED text formatter, and the Stylograph and Screditor-3 WYSIWYG word processors.

Psion were already working on a project in this area and the QL was launched in 1984, bundled with Quill, Archive, Abacus and Easel ; respectively a word processor, database, spreadsheet and business graphics application.

* " Wrapper " programmes for executables, like a batch file that moves or manipulates files and does other things with the operating system before or after running an application like a word processor, spreadsheet, data base, assembler, compiler, etc.

The word is also used loosely to describe more ordinary discomforts that would be accurately described as tedious rather than painful ; for example, " making this spreadsheet was torture!

Video games and even the available spreadsheet, database and word processors for home computers were mostly self-contained programs that took over the machine completely.

It includes Corel Write word processor, Corel Calculate spreadsheet, Corel Show presentation software.

The Cambridge Computer Z88 is an A4-size, lightweight, portable Z80-based computer with a built-in combined word processing / spreadsheet / database application called PipeDream, along with several other applications and utilities, such as a Z80-version of the BBC BASIC programming language.

This period also saw the release of Manuscript, a word processor, Lotus Agenda, an innovative personal information manager ( PIM ), which flopped, and Improv, a groundbreaking modeling package ( and spreadsheet ) for the NeXT platform.

Also sold separately for $ 349, this included T / Maker's WriteNow word processor, Ashton-Tate's Full Impact spreadsheet program, RecordHolderPlus database, and Silicon Beach Software's SuperPaint 2. 0 paint and draw program.

The WAV word processor was a semi-successful OpenDoc word processor from Digital Harbor, the Numbers & Charts package was a spreadsheet and 3D real-time charting solution from Adrenaline Software, the Cyberdog web browser was created by Apple as an OpenDoc application.

It could survive being accidentally dropped and included a bundled software package that included the CP / M operating system, the BASIC programming language, the WordStar word processing package, and the SuperCalc spreadsheet program.

Osborne was one of the first personal computing pioneers to understand fully that there was a wide market of buyers who were not computing hobbyists: the Osborne 1 included word processing and spreadsheet software.

The WordStar word processor, SuperCalc spreadsheet, and the CBASIC and MBASIC programming languages were the leading applications in their respective niches at the time.

This strategy is very common in the software business ( for example: bundle a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a database into a single office suite ), in the cable television industry ( for example, basic cable in the United States generally offers many channels at one price ), and in the fast food industry in which multiple items are combined into a complete meal.

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

the final word came forth.

for as it was Christ, the Word of God, who came to rescue man, so it was disobedience to the word of God in the beginning that brought death into the world, and all our woe.

The Latin word came from Greek ἄβαξ abax " board strewn with sand or dust used for drawing geometric figures or calculating "( the exact shape of the Latin perhaps reflects the genitive form of the Greek word, ἄβακoς abakos ).

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

In some expressions it retains this pan-American sense, but its usage has evolved over time and, for various historical reasons, the word came to denote people or things specifically from the United States of America.

After the longest reign since Augustus ( surpassing Tiberius by a couple of months ), Antoninus died of fever at Lorium in Etruria, about twelve miles ( 19 km ) from Rome, on 7 March 161, giving the keynote to his life in the last word that he uttered when the tribune of the night-watch came to ask the password —" aequanimitas " ( equanimity ).

We are not certain that the word " democracy " was extant when systems that came to be called democratic were first instituted, but around 460 BC an individual is known whose parents had decided to name him ' Democrates ', a name which may have been manufactured as a gesture of democratic loyalty ; the name can also be found in Aeolian Temnus, not a particularly democratic state.

However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns ( especially those who could read and write, the only people whose use of language we now know ), the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and autumn, as well as fall, began to replace it as a reference to the season.

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

This is also the time when the word " boxing " first came to be used.

However, a title came into usage from the first word of the book in Koine Greek: apokalypsis, meaning " unveiling " or " revelation ".

The word " tumors " is used in most English translations to describe the sores that came upon the Philistines.

Boer (,, or ; ) is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal ( which are together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal.

Wyche asked to talk directly to the Commissioner and word immediately came back that the " no-huddle " would not be penalized.

Eventually the word " mail " came to be synonymous with armour.

According to Needham, though there is no way of answering the question of whether the crossbow first arose among the cultures neighboring ancient China before the rise of Chinese culture in their midst, or whether it spread outwards from China to all the environing peoples, the former seems the more probable hypothesis given linguistic evidence, which posits that the Chinese word for ' crossbow ' came from an Austroasiatic language.

Cannon is derived from the Old Italian word cannone, meaning " large tube ", which came from Latin canna, in turn originating from the Greek κάννα ( kanna ), " reed ", and then generalized to mean any hollow tube-like object ; cognate with Akkadian term qanu and Hebrew qāneh, meaning " tube " or " reed ".

How the word came into Spanish is less certain, and there are multiple competing explanations.

First attested in English in the mid-15th century, the word carat came from Middle French carat, in turn from Italian carato, which came from Arabic qīrāṭ ( قيراط ), which came from Greek kerátion ( κεράτιον ) meaning carob seed ( literally " small horn ")