Spreadsheet Roundup 20150205
Here is a roundup of selected spreadsheet articles from last month. Alice Keeler shows how to import multiple Google forms to one spreadsheet Give your Excel Pivot Table a makeover so the data is...
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Spreadsheet Roundup 20150107
Here is a roundup of selected spreadsheet articles from last month. At Macworld, Lou Hattersley compares the iPad versions of Microsoft Excel and Apple Numbers. Her recommendation might surprise you. Mu Lin suggests 3...
Spreadsheet Roundup 20140701
Here are a few of the spreadsheet articles that I found recently, that you might find useful: You can send email from a Google spreadsheet, by adding a simple script to the file. A...
Spreadsheet Guru Contest 2014
This looks interesting – the Analytics section of INFORMS is holding its 3rd annual Spreadsheet Guru contest. In case you’ve never heard of them, The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)...
Spreadsheet Day 2013
Happy Spreadsheet Day 2013! In honour of this special occasion, here is a collection of my favourite spreadsheet tweets from this year. I collect and post Excel tweets every Friday on my Excel Theatre...
Create Labels in Microsoft Excel
On her blog, A Typical English Home, Angela Shear shows us how to make labels in Excel. These aren’t the typical, boring address labels that you’d make at the office. No, these are fun...
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...
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...
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...
