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 ...

Spreadsheets have been a trusted companion in our professional lives for decades—whether it’s tracking budgets, analyzing data, or planning projects. But let’s be honest: as powerful as tools like ...

During the dawn of the PC era, a single program was touted as the “killer app” that fired the market for personal computers. That program was a spreadsheet called VisiCalc. Now, another spreadsheet ...

Despite spreadsheets being fundamental in the data space, visibility and trust are key challenges. To address this need, Alation Inc. launched Alation Connected Sheets, which incorporates data ...

Microsoft Access supports direct import of spreadsheet data from files you've created in Microsoft Excel or saved as XLS or XLSX files in another application capable of creating Excel-compatible ...

If you ever wanted to click a magic button and make complex business tasks happen automatically, macros can make that wish come true. Macros are small programs that execute commands you specify. Write ...

Nicole Dieker has been writing about personal finance for nearly a decade. She's also the author of The Biographies of Ordinary People, a Millennial-era Little Women. And then I have a spreadsheet. My ...

I'm working with a Mac-centric non-profit that has accumulated a list of 12k contacts in an excel spreadsheet. They would like to convert it to a database. I'm looking for suggestions to do so. The ...