Excel offers two methods for creating a spreadsheet on top of an image. If you want your entire sheet to display a tiled image, add it as a background and your data will automatically appear on top of ...

Spreadsheet headings are especially useful for documents that span multiple pages. Adding a header to your spreadsheet enables you to automatically display the document heading on each page, whether ...

Q. I would like to add bullet points to some of my Excel spreadsheets, but Excel doesn’t have that option on the Home tab like Microsoft Word. Is there a way to include bullet points in Excel ...

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Columns organize data in Excel, and are often used as categories with headers to sort cells. You can simply right-click on an existing column to add another column immediately before it. To add ...

Tgood37 asked the Answer Line forum how to add checkboxes to Excel spreadsheets, and how to make sure that checking a box will have an effect. If you’re setting up a worksheet only for yourself, you ...

Mac: The "Sum" function in spreadsheets is great, but if you're not the type to do all your list-making in Excel, coder Brett Terpstra built an OS X System Service that allows you to total up any set ...

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 ...

Permanent is a new spreadsheet-ish app for the iPad. As something of a spreadsheet junkie, I was excited to see an alternative entrant in this rather staid marketplace. And “alternative” really is the ...