.WKS

Lotus 1-2-3 Spreadsheet

📌 A .WKS format category is oriented on the spreadsheet designed by Lotus 1-2-3, a powerful spreadsheet toolkit designed and maintained by IBM corporation. Essentially, .WKS schema stores various data in a grid of cells, which may be composed of number, alphanumeric text, and formulas’ values arranged in the form of .WKS based columns and rows. Lotus 1-2-3 package has been initially represented to the public audience in 1983, and since then has become one of the most broadly utilized spreadsheet utilities. Nevertheless, in the 1990s and 2000s the program declined in exploitation due to tight rivalry among other competitive services and programs available on the global market at that time (particularly, Microsoft Excel distributive). Finally, IBM ceased the development of the Lotus 1-2-3 product in 2013. The .WKS spreadsheets are generated and saved with 1 edition of Lotus 1-2-3 suite, while later generations of the project created .WKS file instances to store the outcome spreadsheet’s contents.

Works Spreadsheet

📌 A .WKS extension logic may also serve as a spreadsheet generated and opened up by versions 2000 and 4.x of Microsoft Works Spreadsheet, a formerly widely spread applet integrated into the Works package and utilized for creating custom spreadsheet items. Precisely, the .WKS objects include the data organized in columns and rows and may also be composed of internal graphs, charts, formulas, and other relevant data objects. Microsoft Works (commonly spread as MS Works) is a powerful office productivity bundle that was afterwards superseded by Microsoft Office. The conclusive development, support and maintenance of the Microsoft Works package ceased entirely in 2009. The Works distributive package consists of a calendar applet, database management system, spreadsheet with .WKS technology compliance, and a basic word processor able to adjust, modify to fill in text data, images and tables in scope of a plain text document structure.

How to open an .WKS file?

📌 The .WKS technological principle is broadly supported, operated and opened up by Corel Quattro Pro, OpenOffice Calc, Planamesa NeoOffice, and Gnumeric software solutions, compliant with all desktop system platforms and infrastructures. However, natively the .WKS object entities are maintained by IBM Lotus 1-2-3, although currently the distribution of this relevant product initiative is entirely terminated and discontinued. Also .WKS tech standard serves for storing, opening and handling Microsoft Works documents, broadly common until 2009, when Microsoft Office eventually replaced the outdated .WKS sustained product schema and logic. The following .WKS specification may include embedded textual, graphical data, as well as charts and tables, built on the basis of mathematical data ranges and sources, integrated into the corresponding .WKS document. Both of these .WKS data branches are completely outdated and archaic, and not supported any more.