Excel gives the answer 10. If you have a mathematical background, you’ll know why Excel gives a different answer to such a simple calculation — and why, technically, Excel is right. If you don’t have ...

Spreadsheet applications helped to kick off the personal computer boom in the 1980s and are effective tools in most businesses today. Sometimes a spreadsheet gets complicated, with many formulas and ...

1. Open Google Sheets in a web browser and click the cell in which you want the formula's answer to appear. 2. Find the Formula Bar above the spreadsheet. It's a blank field to the right of the Fx ...

Microsoft has been adding new features to Excel lately, and the latest one could change the way people work with formulas.

I learned, belatedly, that last October 17 was Spreadsheet Day, marking the 35th anniversary of VisiCalc, the Apple II program that started it all. This moved me to republish a long piece I wrote 30 ...