Back in April 2014, I wrote about the first release of Microsoft’s Excel for iPad, and I found it to have a well-designed UI and most of the features of the desktop version. It was missing some things ...

We've transitioned from using smartphones as fun ways to text and call our loved ones to them being widely applauded as multipurpose tools. The improvements in processing power and advancements in ...

As the spreadsheet program in Microsoft's Office suite of applications, Excel is one of the most popular programs used by business, educational institutions and individuals. Heavy-duty users of the ...

Thanks to a suggestion from Macworld reader David Erato, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks immersed in spreadsheet applications…no, not on my Mac, but on my iPhone. David was curious how well the ...

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting. Data bars are a kind of conditional formatting, with the bar length based on the value of the ...

Numbers supports fewer formulas than Excel, which can cause your spreadsheets to break. Advanced Excel features like pivot tables won't always work as expected in Excel. Apple Numbers is better suited ...

If you create spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel that you need to distribute to colleagues or coworkers who don't use the software, you'll need a way to transform your XLS or XLSX files into standalone ...

How do we add geometric shapes in Excel, and can they be custom-designed? Excel provides over 16 dozen geometric shapes that you can size and manipulate to your specific needs, plus hundreds of ...

Can Excel send Alerts? Yes, but with some limitations. Excel cannot email an alert to you automatically unless you write a macro in the Visual Basic (VBA) editor to perform this function. And, the ...