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 ...

Have you ever opened an Excel spreadsheet and felt instantly overwhelmed by cluttered data, mismatched fonts, or confusing layouts? It’s a common frustration, yet so many of us accept it as the norm.

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 ...

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 ...

Flexibility and ease of use have made the spreadsheet the popular but unfortunate choice for makeshift databases; we can do better For a long stretch of early personal computing history, three ...

A KPMG study found that, in a sample of 22 spreadsheets, 91 percent contained errors. Is this a fluke? Nope. A similar study by S.G. Powell discovered that, in a ...

Numbers isn’t just a spreadsheet application. The tables that can be placed on the Sheets in Numbers are the spreadsheets, but a sheet can contain multiple tables, charts, and media. The media can be ...

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 ...