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A Brief History Of The Spreadsheet

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

A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge

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 ...
Houston Chronicle

The Advantages of Electronic Spreadsheets

Electronic spreadsheets like those created with Excel, Numbers and OpenOffice are a key part of modern personal and corporate finance. Electronic spreadsheets bring a number of advantages over ...
Macworld

Best Mac spreadsheet apps

If you’ve just bought a new Mac, you’ll have Numbers (along with Pages and Keynote) ready for all your productivity needs. However, they aren’t the only options for digital number-crunching. As well ...
Business Wire

Study Finds Spreadsheet Risk is Real; Businesses are Aware of the Risk—Yet Despite Relying on this Data to Make Key Business Decisions—the Risk is Ignored

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Incisive Software today announced results of a study that evaluates spreadsheet risk. The findings confirm companies are exposing themselves to financial and ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Insert Data From Multiple Excel Spreadsheets to One Excel Spreadsheet

If you manage data in multiple Excel spreadsheets, you can use the Consolidate Data wizard to merge data from several spreadsheets or workbooks into one master sheet. The Consolidate Data wizard ...
Hackaday

A Spreadsheet For The Python Hacker

You can write a Python program or use a Jupyter Notebook to do almost anything. But you can also get a lot of things done quickly using a spreadsheet. Grist is a “hacker’s” spreadsheet that merges ...