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 ...

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 ...

Recently, I have been doing quite a bit of work involving the use of functions inside Excel spreadsheets. Although functions are probably most often used for computational purposes, functions can also ...

is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. When Shishir Mehrotra worked at YouTube, he was struck by the relatively pedestrian tools that kept the site running.

To help readers follow the instructions in this article, we use two different typefaces. Boldface type is used to identify the names of icons, agendas and URLs. Sans serif type indicates commands and ...