Spreadsheet Savings: Calculate Lunch Costs
If you find yourself running out of money before the end of the month, maybe a spreadsheet can help. If you don’t have the strength to put together a detailed personal budget, you could...
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Spreadsheet Creativity: Streaming Radio
Just because you spend the day in a cubicle, staring at spreadsheets, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a bit of entertainment. Along with your analysis of banknotes, you can enjoy a few musical notes,...
Spreadsheet Good: Taking Care of a Friend
Maybe you use a spreadsheet to create your grocery list, or keep track of your daily tasks. Frat brothers from the University of Virginia have taken those ideas, and added a splash of good...
Spreadsheet Creativity: Needlework Stitch Diagrams
JoAnn Paules uses Excel every day at work, to make financial charts and reports for her department. When she finally gets home in the evening, Excel helps her relax, by providing the canvas for...
Spreadsheet Creativity: A Day at the Spa
Some of us find it relaxing to work on a spreadsheet, and look forward to spending the day neck deep in formulas. An article in Time magazine this week showed that a spreadsheet can...
Spreadsheet Creativity: Gaming
While you’re sweating over the budget spreadsheets, or tweaking your sales forecasts in Excel, you’d be surprised to learn that the guy next door might be updating his combat and mutilate spreadsheets. It’s not...
Spreadsheet Add-Ins: Star Schemas in PowerPivot
A powerful new add-in for Excel 2010, PowerPivot allows users to quickly analyse huge datasets, while staying in the familiar environment of Excel. It’s an easy way to create reports, using pivot tables and...
Spreadsheet Creativity: Amusement Rides
On the Design News blog, author Jon Titus describes how the engineers at Dynamic Structures use an Excel spreadsheet, along with Autodesk, to design roller coasters and other theme park rides. How does Excel...
Spreadsheet Creativity: A Town Map
Yes, spreadsheets were designed so you could do what-if analysis on your numbers. But who hasn’t used a spreadsheet for non-numeric things? We use spreadsheets for everything from grocery lists, to knitting pattern design...
Mainframe Spreadsheets Used Before VisiCalc
While digging into the history of electronic spreadsheets, I found an article by Ken Dakin, who was the programmer for Works Record System, a mainframe spreadsheet. His History of Spreadsheets lists some of the...
