Spreadsheet applications helped to kick off the personal computer boom in the 1980s and are effective tools in most businesses today. Sometimes a spreadsheet gets complicated, with many formulas and ...

Microsoft Excel is practically synonymous with spreadsheets, but the cost, along with being trapped in Microsoft's ecosystem, made me search for an alternative. Excel is practically synonymous with ...

Microsoft Excel offers Visual Basic for Application (VBA) as a scripting tool to let you add additional functionality to your Excel spreadsheets. You can use VBA to prompt the user to enter a filename ...

Grid software maker Platform Computing releases a module that enables Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program to use the power of a grid computing system. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Google is set to launch on Tuesday a Web-based spreadsheet program that will allow people to view and simultaneously edit data while conducting "in-document" chat, a company product manager said ...

Though the practice of maintaining bookkeeping and ledger records dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, physical spreadsheet records have always suffered from the problem of requiring corrections and ...

Microsoft Excel spreadsheets hold more than a million rows of data and automate number crunching, but they can do so much more. Excel’s simple interface lends itself to uses well beyond those that its ...