Lotus Impress

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Lotus Impress was an add-on of Lotus 1-2-3 edited in the early 1990s by Lotus Software, at that time leader in the spreadsheet market. Basically and prior to it, It added to 1-2-3 the current Microsoft Excel "Format cells..." functions. A pioneer in this, Lotus transformed with Impress the austere columns of numbers into shareable professional-looking reports.

Lotus Software was an American software company based in Massachusetts; it was "offloaded" to India's HCL Corporation in 2018.

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