Preparing for Spreadsheet Day 2011
It’s only 9 days until Spreadsheet Day 2011 – Monday, October 17th. Have you got your office party organized? Are you taking the day off, to make a long weekend for the holiday? Share...
Category: Spreadsheet Day
VisiCalc’s Dan Bricklin at Apple WWDC 2011
The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is running this week in San Francisco. On the WWDC website, you can only see the schedule if you log in, so I don’t know how much time...
Excel at the London 2012 Olympics
Yes, an Excel spreadsheet can do all kinds of magical things, and you can push it well beyond its expected limits. But, you also have to know when to quit pushing. In an article...
Perfect Unions With Excel Wedding Plans
When my son got married, we did some of the wedding planning in Excel, and it helped things go smoothly. We even used the seating plan workbook on my Contextures website, that helps you...
First Demo of VisiCalc
Thirty-two years ago today, on May 12, 1979, Dan Bricklin demonstrated the new spreadsheet program, VisiCalc, at the 4th West Coast Computer Faire, in San Francisco. On his Benlo Park website, Peter Jennings describes...
Track Goals and Activities in Excel
David Seah produces a compact calendar each year, in Excel format, that you can download from his website. It’s a vertical format, with a row for each week, and the month start dates highlighted....
Spreadsheet Analysis: Value of a Bull
There’s a lot of bull in business, but if you’re actually buying a bull, this Value of a Bull spreadsheet should help with your decisions. Just like any other big purchase, apparently there are...
Spreadsheet Food: Afraid to Write in Cookbooks
My cookbooks are full of comments. When I try a recipe, the cookbook gets marked with a date and rating, so I’ll remember what worked, and what didn’t. Sometimes the ingredient list is marked...
Spreadsheet Food: Diners, Drive-ins and Drives
If you’re a fan of the Diners, Drive-ins and Dives TV show, you’ll enjoy this blog: http://dinersdrive-insanddives.blogspot.com/ And to make it even better, there are spreadsheets too! Look in the right-hand sidebar, and you’ll...
Would Wii Kinect With Spreadsheets That Move?
When you play games on a Wii, your body movements trigger emotions, which make the experience more entertaining, according to scientists who are studying the effects these games have. Could you create a spreadsheet...
