Commercial off-the-shelf software such as Microsoft Excel lets you automate engineering functions (references 1 through 3). This Design Idea explains how you can use Excel to calculate the values of ...

In these days of cloud-based systems, mobile applications, and web-based services, why use a spreadsheet for any other purpose than analysis? Now that you’re convinced about a spreadsheet’s value, are ...

As a spreadsheet software program, Microsoft Excel has many useful features for a small business's productivity. Chief among these is the ability to use formulas to make various calculations with the ...

Whenever you change something on a Microsoft Excel 2010 spreadsheet, the program will recalculate some of the cells in the worksheet, even some of those that did not change. Normally, Excel operates ...

Complex formulas may look impressive, but readable logic, helper columns, and reusable functions create spreadsheets that ...

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