New software could make databases much easier for laypeople to work with. The program's home screen looks like a spreadsheet, but it lets users build their own database queries and reports by ...

Excel offers two methods for creating a spreadsheet on top of an image. If you want your entire sheet to display a tiled image, add it as a background and your data will automatically appear on top of ...

My program of choice to flesh-out calculations is Microsoft Excel. Windows and the Office Suite are ubiquitous, so Excel is always available and everyone can use and read it. That said, with so many ...

An earlier Design Idea described how to linearize the output of an RTD (resistance-temperature-detector) sensor and how to calculate the resistor values using a spreadsheet (Reference 1). That idea ...

We noted that Excel turned 40 this year. That makes it seem old, and today, if you say “spreadsheet,” there’s a good chance you are talking about an Excel spreadsheet, and if ...

After helping design Excel 2013, Josh Leong struck out on his own, launching a collaborative spreadsheet app for iPad and iPhone. Grid, which launched in beta last week, takes basic Excel ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

Much like money earned from selling goods and services, information is a form of currency crucial to the success of your small business. OpenOffice.org is a software suite that consists of five ...

Numbers isn’t just a spreadsheet application. The tables that can be placed on the Sheets in Numbers are the spreadsheets, but a sheet can contain multiple tables, charts, and media. The media can be ...