Many people have trouble keeping their checkbooks balanced. Now that debit cards have made it easy to have money electronically transferred out of your bank account without even having to write a ...

February 18, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Spreadsheets are one of the most mystifying pieces of software you'll encounter in your adult life. As scary ...

One weekend, Josh Leong was stuck at home during a “low point in video games.” He may have just cleaned or caught up on Netflix, but Leong was a designer at Microsoft working on apps like Excel, Word, ...

Tools like Excel and Google Sheets are ubiquitous these days, and learning how to use them more effectively will quickly enhance your daily work. Alas, spreadsheets aren't always the easiest thing to ...

A reader asked what program I’d recommend for creating a “database” of her CD collection that could be broken down by song title, artist, genre, performance date, etc. A “database” is a “table” of ...

Much of the early success of consumer electronics giant Apple Inc. was due to the demand of businesses for the Apple II home computer to run the VisiCalc spreadsheet software application. VisiCalc and ...

I learned, belatedly, that last October 17 was Spreadsheet Day, marking the 35th anniversary of VisiCalc, the Apple II program that started it all. This moved me to republish a long piece I wrote 30 ...

Microsoft reports that well over 1 billion people use Office, the suite of applications that includes the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Roughly 1 in every 6 people on Earth use it. It’s certainly easy ...