Mark Spencer

They're one of the most commonly used computing tools in business today, regardless of a company's revenues or number of employees. Wall Street money mavens use them, and so does your hometown accountant...spreadsheets. Did you ever tweak spreadsheet formulas to play "what-if" games with your stock portfolio? Have you ever received an e-mail with a spreadsheet attachment full of sales figures or forecasts? And by the way, how did your friend send you the results of this week's fantasy football league? Thanks largely to the widespread distribution of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Excel, the spreadsheet is perhaps the top data analysis and reporting tool in the industry. Distinguished by a rows-and-columns interface that even the casual computer user can understand, spreadsheets provide a wide range of functionality that many types of businesses can leverage. They pr... (more)