These habits mean you outgrew the grid, not Excel.

Grist made it easier to connect related records, build dashboards without cell grids, and let those relationships drive the ...

When you think about serial communications, Microsoft Excel isn’t typically the first program that springs to mind. But this spreadsheet has a rather powerful scripting language hidden away inside it, ...

Excel sheets read data in cells using cell references, which are the addresses that identify each cell. Visual Basic macros also read data using cell references, extracting data by reading the cell's ...

Struggling with unwieldy Excel spreadsheets that seem impossible to manage? You’re not alone. Many of us face the challenge of organizing large datasets in a way that makes sense and is easy to ...

Originally, Excel was not designed to be a real database. Its early database functions were limited in quantity and in quality. And because every record in an Excel database is visible on the screen ...

If you’re a full-time spreadsheet jockey, or just a casual number-cruncher, you’ve come to know and either love or hate Excel’s interface. Well, your world just changed. Throw away almost everything ...