First Demo of VisiCalc
Thirty-two years ago today, on May 12, 1979, Dan Bricklin demonstrated the new spreadsheet program, VisiCalc, at the 4th West Coast Computer Faire, in San Francisco. On his Benlo Park website, Peter...
View ArticlePerfect Unions With Excel Wedding Plans
When my son got married, we did some of the wedding planning in Excel, and it helped things go smoothly. We even used the seating plan workbook on my Contextures website, that helps you figure out...
View ArticleExcel at the London 2012 Olympics
Yes, an Excel spreadsheet can do all kinds of magical things, and you can push it well beyond its expected limits. But, you also have to know when to quit pushing. In an article in today’s Register,...
View ArticleVisiCalc’s Dan Bricklin at Apple WWDC 2011
The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is running this week in San Francisco. On the WWDC website, you can only see the schedule if you log in, so I don’t know how much time is devoted to...
View ArticlePreparing for Spreadsheet Day 2011
It’s only 9 days until Spreadsheet Day 2011 – Monday, October 17th. Have you got your office party organized? Are you taking the day off, to make a long weekend for the holiday? Share the Spreadsheet...
View ArticleExcel Student Budget: Spreadsheet Day 2011
Happy Spreadsheet Day! Each year, on October 17th, we celebrate our wonderful worksheets and terrific templates. This is the date that VisiCalc was first released to customers, in 1979. To participate...
View ArticleFeeding Your Monster Spreadsheets
How often has this happened to you? You started out with a simple Excel spreadsheet, to track one or two key items. Before long, that spreadsheet has turned into a monster – dozens of columns (or...
View ArticleFreedom From Spreadsheets
How much personal stuff do you track with spreadsheets? Does all that tracking take the fun out of your free time? It’s not just you – in her blog, Vicariously Yours, Sarah Layden talks about her years...
View ArticleExcel Is For Lists Not Formulas
Sure, you use Excel for all kinds of fancy calculations. Your workbooks are full of mega-formulas and user-defined functions. Your macros magically summarize the data, and you create monthly reports...
View ArticleSpreadsheet Day 2012
Happy Spreadsheet Day 2012! What are you doing to celebrate? To mark this special occasion, I’ve posted links to 5 of my favourite Excel tips from the past year, on my Contextures Blog. The tips...
View ArticleCreate Labels in Microsoft Excel
On her blog, A Typical English Home, Angela Shear shows us how to make labels in Excel. These aren’t the typical, boring address labels that you’d make at the office. No, these are fun labels, that you...
View ArticleSpreadsheet Day 2013
Happy Spreadsheet Day 2013! In honour of this special occasion, here is a collection of my favourite spreadsheet tweets from this year. I collect and post Excel tweets every Friday on my Excel Theatre...
View ArticleSpreadsheet Guru Contest 2014
This looks interesting – the Analytics section of INFORMS is holding its 3rd annual Spreadsheet Guru contest. In case you’ve never heard of them, The Institute for Operations Research and the...
View ArticleSpreadsheet Roundup 20140701
Here are a few of the spreadsheet articles that I found recently, that you might find useful: You can send email from a Google spreadsheet, by adding a simple script to the file. A short video shows...
View ArticleHappy Spreadsheet Day 2014
Happy Spreadsheet Day 2014! This is the 35th anniversary of the VisiCalc launch date in 1979, so I hope that you have some special celebrations planned. If you’re not sure how Spreadsheet Day began,...
View ArticleSpreadsheet Day 2014 Roundup
Yesterday was Spreadsheet Day, and we celebrated the 35th anniversary of the VisiCalc release and shipping date. The celebration is getting more popular every year, and below are some of the articles...
View ArticleSpreadsheet Roundup 20150107
Here is a roundup of selected spreadsheet articles from last month. At Macworld, Lou Hattersley compares the iPad versions of Microsoft Excel and Apple Numbers. Her recommendation might surprise you....
View ArticleSpreadsheet Roundup 20150205
Here is a roundup of selected spreadsheet articles from last month. Alice Keeler shows how to import multiple Google forms to one spreadsheet Give your Excel Pivot Table a makeover so the data is...
View ArticleSpreadsheet Roundup 20150304
Here is a roundup of selected spreadsheet articles that I’ve read in the past month. You’ll find interesting tips, useful sample files, and new ideas for your own spreadsheets. If you have any...
View ArticleSpreadsheet Roundup 20150408
Here is a roundup of selected spreadsheet articles that I've read in the past month. You'll find interesting tips, useful sample files, and new ideas for your own spreadsheets. If you have suggestions...
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