Q. Is there a list of standard Excel design rules we should be following as we create new Excel worksheets? A. By following a common set of spreadsheet design rules, companies can produce more ...

A new book by an Irish author aimed at reducing risks related to poor spreadsheet design and use has been submitted to the European Computer Driving Licence Foundation for validation as courseware.

Microsoft Excel includes wide-ranging style features you can use to highlight important statistical results or give your worksheets and workbooks an artistic flair. Used judiciously, these and other ...

Spreadsheets have evolved over the last 25 years from an accounting tool to a ubiquitous application for anyone working with data, including business managers, statisticians, and engineers. For ...

New software could make databases much easier for laypeople to work with. The program's home screen looks like a spreadsheet, but it lets users build their own database queries and reports by ...

An earlier Design Idea described how to linearize the output of an RTD (resistance-temperature-detector) sensor and how to calculate the resistor values using a spreadsheet (Reference 1). That idea ...