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 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 ...

Protect your data integrity by using Excel formulas to "lock" checkboxes so they only tick when specific conditions are met.

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 ...

Google's online spreadsheet is going into limited beta today. As of this writing, nobody I know has actually used with the service, however screenshots are up on Google's site, and we can tell a few ...