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New Guidelines For Spreadsheets

@article{Raffensperger2008NewGF,
  title={New Guidelines For Spreadsheets},
  author={John F. Raffensperger},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2008},
  volume={abs/0807.3186}
}
This article examines rules of style for text, graphics, and mathematics and applies these rules to spreadsheets. The article describes the new style in detail with an example and contrasts the new style with the existing programming style. 
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