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.

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.

Numbers on iPhone is a free, mobile alternative to Microsoft Excel that lets you create multiple spreadsheets, add ...

Maybe we shouldn’t have given in to spreadsheets so easily. Maybe we shouldn’t have let bookkeepers and accountants dictate how we’d track creative projects for decades to come. But we did. And ...

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 ...

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.

Doing serious spreadsheet work on a tablet can be challenging, but spreadsheet apps are becoming more capable, whether you’re on an iOS, Android or Windows slate. Microsoft Excel remains the gold ...

There are any number of spreadsheet apps available for the iPad, but recently the market changed dramatically when Microsoft released the full Office suite for iPad, including a version of Excel.

One weekend, Josh Leong was stuck at home during a “low point in video games.” He may have just cleaned or caught up on Netflix, but Leong was a designer at Microsoft working on apps like Excel, Word, ...