A worksheet, in the word’s original meaning, is a scrap of stationery on which one performs work. They arrive in many kind forms, most ussually linked with children’s school work assignments, tax forms, or accounting or other business sphere. Software is raisingly taking over the paper-based worksheet.
It could be a printed page that a kid completes with a writing instrument. No other stuffs are needed. It is “a single paper on which schedules activity, working time, special hints, etc. are recorded. A sheet of paper on which problems, ideas, or the like, are set down in temporary form.” In school, a worksheet may have questions for students also places to record answers.
In department of accounting, a worksheet is, or was, a scrap of ruled paper with rows and columns on which an accountant could register information or perform calculations. These are oft named columnar pads, and exclusively green-tinted.
In computing, spreadsheet application presents, on a computer monitor, a UI that like one or more paper accounting worksheets. MS Excel, a favorite spreadsheet software, bases on a single spreadsheet (more technically, a 2 dimensional matrix or array) as a worksheet, and it bases on a collection of worksheets as a workbook.
