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# QL Abacus/Spreadsheet Tips, Part II

One good indicator that QL Abacus (QL SPREADSHEET in the States) is a quality program is the fact that, despite the proliferation of other software for the QL, there is no other QL spreadsheet. It is a first-class professional computer program. The following is intended to go beyond the QL Abacus documentation in the Sinclair QL User Guide in helping you to optimize your use of this excellent program.