I've seen spreadsheets that are basically interactive tutorials, and many more loaded with what Edward Tufte refers to as "chartjunk" -- embellishments that do nothing to make the presentation of ...

Note: This book review was conducted as an audio interview of macros expert John Dukovich, by Phil Shapiro, using Audacity, the free sound recording and editing software. The review is available in ...

A formula is a spreadsheet function entered in a cell, complete with its arguments. They're one of the two or three major applications that first spearheaded the acceptance of the personal computer in ...

The ability to store and run calculations on data make spreadsheets a valuable resource for any office, but their usefulness can be diminished if you're unable to see the numbers. OpenOffice Calc can ...

The free and open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office 365 Excel is called OpenOffice Calc. This spreadsheet processor can be found within the set of apps that make up the OpenOffice office suite.

The latest version of the open-source office suite OpenOffice.org 3.1 has just arrived, and it’s a good one. While some of the improvements are visible to the naked eye, I found that the most ...

Add graphs and charts to your Apache OpenOffice documents and bring your numbers and statistics to life. You can insert the graphs directly into the Writer application, then add or make changes to ...

OK, obviously there's more to this story than my tongue-in-cheek answer. This came up after one of our supercool, power user secretaries (who is an Office 2003/2007 wiz) ran a training session for the ...