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Excel possesses formidable database powers. Creating a relational database starts with a Master table that links it to subordinates, called (awkwardly) Slave, Child, or Detail tables. Before we dive ...

Everyone in Silicon Valley seems to be talking about Airtable, a user-friendly spreadsheet app that makes it super easy to build custom applications — no coding experience required. Airtable has ...

Quip, a startup with mobile apps for crafting and collaborating on documents, has turned on some useful capabilities when it comes to working with spreadsheets. Now you can click a couple of buttons ...

Excel created pivot tables to improve upon its convoluted, weak reporting features (which are still available). The pivot table is actually a collection of tools that Excel uses to help you create ...

Google LLC is building on the machine learning technology that was integrated into its spreadsheet software last year. The company said today that it’s enhancing the “Explore” feature in Sheets with ...

This is a proof of concept that I put together out of curiosity today, and it’ll likely break for some documents or Microsoft Excel, but it’s been working well for me, and I thought I’d share it.

Google Fusion Tables is a great tool to map (and chart) data easily. But one of its drawbacks is the difficulty in updating the data tables that power your map. Unless you’re very comfortable ...

Is it the end of an era if virtually no one notices? That question seemed relevant last fall when IBM officially ended support for Lotus 1-2-3, which was once the world’s dominant spreadsheet program.