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For novices, functions are one of the most intimidating features of OpenOffice.org's Calc. Newcomers quickly learn that functions are a main feature of spreadsheets, but there are almost four hundred, ...

Power users love to talk about how powerful and awesome Excel is, what with its Pivot Tables, nested formulas, and Boolean logic. But many of us barely know how to find the Autosum feature, let alone ...

In addition to its basic spreadsheet functions, Microsoft Excel also allows writing formulas to perform functions on existing data. Using a quick equation, you can convert an existing set of time data ...

Learn the difference between Excel COUNT and COUNTA, plus TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER tricks, so you clean text and totals with ...

If you carry a laptop around just so you can show clients your latest marketing forecasts or call up sales figures at company meetings, you can save yourself some bother by using Google Spreadsheets ...