Free spreadsheet apps are a cool idea, as long as you’re comfortable with their limitations. Many are ad-supported, for instance, so expect part of your screen to be trying to sell you something.

You have a few choices when it comes to making spreadsheets, but if you're going beyond the basics, we think Microsoft Office is the most feature-filled, easy to use, and compatible program to use.

Maybe we shouldn’t have given in to spreadsheets so easily. Maybe we shouldn’t have let bookkeepers and accountants dictate how we’d track creative projects for decades to come. But we did. And ...

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Thanks to a suggestion from Macworld reader David Erato, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks immersed in spreadsheet applications…no, not on my Mac, but on my iPhone. David was curious how well the ...

Doing serious spreadsheet work on a tablet can be challenging, but spreadsheet apps are becoming more capable, whether you’re on an iOS, Android or Windows slate. Microsoft Excel remains the gold ...

Using an Excel-like spreadsheet app with your iPad, you can work with spreadsheets and figures while on the move, improving your productivity. Although there is no iPad version of Excel itself, ...

There are any number of spreadsheet apps available for the iPad, but recently the market changed dramatically when Microsoft released the full Office suite for iPad, including a version of Excel.

An old rule of thumb for building a startup is to find a group of professionals who use spreadsheets to do their work and then build an app to replace their spreadsheet usage. Presto, you have a ...