Microsoft Excel may be the best-known spreadsheet software, but it's not the only one. Here are seven alternatives to Excel that are worth using.

Meal planning and grocery list creation with Excel can make your cooking life a breeze. Start by creating a simple spreadsheet to plan your weeks meals. List breakfast, lunch, and dinner for each day.

Spreadsheet Tricks All this math is pretty simple to set up in a spreadsheet. There are at least two ways to go. You can do lots of formulas, or you can use a trick to do one formula for each signal.