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.

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 ...

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 ...

Zoho continues its quest to build the most comprehensive online productivity suite, adding support for macros and pivot tables in its spreadsheet, Zoho Sheet. The new version includes support for ...

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 ...

Turn ranges into tables, add totals, filter instantly, and insert rows faster. These shortcuts make table work feel ...

When you want to turn that giant spreadsheet into an HTML table without wrangling too many TD's and TR's by hand, you can use a formula to generate the HTML tags for you. The Design Intellection blog ...

One thing I found especially interesting about Adobe's new Acrobat.com announcements this week (Techmeme coverage here) is its hybrid spreadsheet/database application called Tables. I already ...

During the dawn of the PC era, a single program was touted as the “killer app” that fired the market for personal computers. That program was a spreadsheet called VisiCalc. Now, another spreadsheet ...

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