Analysis: As the world's most popular office software marks 40 years of cells and rows, why do we keep making the same mistakes with spreadsheets? Spreadsheet blunders aren't just frustrating personal ...

Navigating the world of Excel can sometimes feel like walking a tightrope—one misstep, and you could find yourself facing costly errors that not only affect your bottom line but also your professional ...

Spreadsheet blunders aren’t just frustrating personal inconveniences. They can have serious consequences. And in the last few years alone, there have been a myriad of spreadsheet horror stories. In ...

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have released a tool called CheckCell that’s designed to spot errors in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets that could lead to big problems. And as researchers ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Spreadsheets are staples of business life. But — as with sausages and laws — it is harder to respect them if ...

When the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, first said the country would develop a £12 billion “world-beating” system for testing and tracing cases of COVID-19, few people probably imagined that it ...

Microsoft's Excel has been blamed for errors in academic papers on genomics. Researchers trying to raise awareness of the issue claim that the spreadsheet software automatically converts the names of ...