Category: Spreadsheet Day

In exactly one week, on Monday October 17th, it will be Spreadsheet Day 2016. We’ll be celebrating on a Monday this year, so maybe you can turn it into a long weekend.

Happy Spreadsheet Day 2015! Thanks for stopping by, and please vote in the survey below, for the Spreadsheet Hall of Fame. We celebrate on October 17th because that is the date on which VisiCalc...

There is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a Baseball Hall of Fame, a Hockey Hall of Fame, a Toy Hall of Fame, and many others. Why isn’t there a Spreadsheet Hall of...

Yesterday was Spreadsheet Day, and we celebrated the 35th anniversary of the VisiCalc release and shipping date. The celebration is getting more popular every year, and below are some of the articles that I...

Happy Spreadsheet Day 2014! This is the 35th anniversary of the VisiCalc launch date in 1979, so I hope that you have some special celebrations planned. If you’re not sure how Spreadsheet Day began,...

Happy Spreadsheet Day 2012! What are you doing to celebrate? To mark this special occasion, I’ve posted links to 5 of my favourite Excel tips from the past year, on my Contextures Blog. The...

Sure, you use Excel for all kinds of fancy calculations. Your workbooks are full of mega-formulas and user-defined functions. Your macros magically summarize the data, and you create monthly reports with the click of...

How much personal stuff do you track with spreadsheets? Does all that tracking take the fun out of your free time? It’s not just you – in her blog, Vicariously Yours, Sarah Layden talks...

How often has this happened to you? You started out with a simple Excel spreadsheet, to track one or two key items. Before long, that spreadsheet has turned into a monster – dozens of...

Happy Spreadsheet Day! Each year, on October 17th, we celebrate our wonderful worksheets and terrific templates. This is the date that VisiCalc was first released to customers, in 1979. To participate in Spreadsheet Day,...