Simonyi later designed Microsoft Word and the Excel spreadsheet program, and hired many of the company's early big thinkers.

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Although data from other applications can often be imported into Excel, the program is not conducive to easily exporting data to other applications.

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The new iWork desktop application now includes a spreadsheet program, dubbed Numbers, offering an Apple alternative to Microsoft's Excel.

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