Numbers in rows tell one story, but charts and graphs reveal patterns you might otherwise miss. Create a simple line graph ...

Adding a timeline to a project tracking spreadsheet gives you a visual overview of your project’s major stages, including how ...

If you’ve just bought a new Mac, you’ll have Numbers (along with Pages and Keynote) ready for all your productivity needs. However, they aren’t the only options for digital number-crunching. As well ...

Meredith Dietz is Lifehacker’s Senior Staff Writer. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English and Communications from Northeastern University, where she graduated as valedictorian of her college.

Weekly reviews, monthly adjustments. You'll spend 10 minutes every Sunday reviewing your data and 30 minutes at month's end analyzing trends and tweaking your approach. This prevents the "check back ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although Excel is the Microsoft Office application best known for its spreadsheet capabilities, there may be times when you require a spreadsheet in a business report or other Word document. You can ...