But they were worth the wait.

It’s a simple way to track your income and expenses.

At the beginning of the personal computer era, a student in Boston dreamed up the first electronic spreadsheet. It was a $99 piece of software that changed whole industries — and created a new ...

I learned, belatedly, that last October 17 was Spreadsheet Day, marking the 35th anniversary of VisiCalc, the Apple II program that started it all. This moved me to republish a long piece I wrote 30 ...

Before bookkeeping software, accountants used handwritten spreadsheets to track business expenses. Now you can use programs, such as Excel to design expense spreadsheets and do the math for you, but ...

Glide turns an Excel spreadsheet into an inventory app; computed columns replace formulas, giving live stock-on-hand totals across tables.

David Lyford-Smith is an expert at solving spreadsheet mysteries. Once, in a previous job, he was sent a payroll form to look over for a new starter. It had the number 40,335 in a random box, and ...

On this day in 1979, a computer program called VisiCalc first shipped for the Apple II platform, marking the birth of the spreadsheet, a now-ubiquitous tool used to compile everything from grocery ...

An old rule of thumb for building a startup is to find a group of professionals who use spreadsheets to do their work and then build an app to replace their spreadsheet usage. Presto, you have a ...

Much like money earned from selling goods and services, information is a form of currency crucial to the success of your small business. OpenOffice.org is a software suite that consists of five ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Aleksandra Bal covers indirect tax and technology developments. Despite the growing presence of AI and large language models (LLMs ...