Free spreadsheet apps are a cool idea, as long as you’re comfortable with their limitations. Many are ad-supported, for instance, so expect part of your screen to be trying to sell you something.

You have a few choices when it comes to making spreadsheets, but if you're going beyond the basics, we think Microsoft Office is the most feature-filled, easy to use, and compatible program to use.

A hot trend in tech these days is coming up with the next great “spreadsheet killer”—the dazzling app that’ll make us all abandon Excel and Google Sheets in favor of some newer, sleeker, and more ...

Users’ of Google’s Spreadsheet application can now designate blocks of cells that only they can modify when they allow their worksheets to be edited by others. By locking certain cell ranges, users ...

Google Sheets is a web-based spreadsheet application that’s equivalent to Microsoft Excel. If you’ve never used Sheets (or Excel, for that matter), you might need help getting started. In this ...

Excel has been the leading spreadsheet application for ages, but there are plenty of other options out there. Whether youre just starting out or a spreadsheet pro, there are many good choices for data ...

There are a handful of capable, solid spreadsheet apps for Mac, but we've got our money on Excel thanks to its rich feature set, cross-platform (and web) compatibility, and data management tools.

After helping design Excel 2013, Josh Leong struck out on his own, launching a collaborative spreadsheet app for iPad and iPhone. Grid, which launched in beta last week, takes basic Excel ...

Using an Excel-like spreadsheet app with your iPad, you can work with spreadsheets and figures while on the move, improving your productivity. Although there is no iPad version of Excel itself, ...

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 ...

Rumors that Apple Computer has been quietly developing its own spreadsheet solution gained a dab of credibility this week as sources pointed to a revealing company filing with the United States Patent ...