For decades, Excel worked on a simple principle: you enter a formula into one cell, and it returns a single result into that ...

In a [previous post](/dotphysics/2008/09/basics-making-graphs-with-kinematics-stuff-part-ii/), I talked about how to plot kinematics data with a spread sheet and how ...

In Part 1 of this blog, we looked at the way that Excel can help generate an equation that describes a curve based on collected data. Then, that curve can be linearized. We left off noting that the ...

Microsoft has recently added a new feature to excel in the form of the extremely useful Scan Function. This guide aims to provide a quick overview of how you can get the most from this new function ...

To analyze your company's payroll expenditures, you might create an Excel spreadsheet and use some of the functions in the Financial or Math & Trigonometry categories. To create a pricing spreadsheet, ...

Microsoft Excel allows us to create Custom Excel Functions or User Defined Functions using VBA. We can create Custom Excel Functions with the functionality we want and they can be accessed in the ...

When I was in high school, we used to plot points on graph paper and then try to fit a curve with some plastic templates named in undoubtedly sexist terms as French Curves. There was also a flexible ...