There is no denying that spreadsheets have become critical for all operational processes including financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis. Microsoft  Excel has essentially become a scratch pad and a data browser that can quickly be put to use for information gathering and decision-making. However, there is little control in how data comes into Excel, and how it gets updated....

BACKGROUND Microsoft Excel automatically converts certain gene symbols, database accessions, and other alphanumeric text into dates, scientific notation, and other numerical representations. These conversions lead to subsequent, irreversible, corruption of the imported text. A recent survey of popular genomic literature estimates that one-fifth of all papers with supplementary gene lists suffer...

The CERN PC-based ISOLDE control system has been installed at the SRS electron storage ring at Daresbury Laboratory. The use of Windows NT for the control consoles together with PC and VME front-end computers running under several operating systems has resulted in a flexible and reliable system for accelerator control. The implementation and philosophy of control application programs, based aro...

This paper presents a new system for non-visual navigation of spreadsheet tables using synthesis speech. The purpose is to provide a flexible hierarchical non-visual navigation for tables in Excel. The hierarchical view of the spreadsheet contents along with the user ability to select the table provides more flexibility than current assistive technologies. The proposed system allows the user to...

We provide an assessment of the statistical distributions in Microsoft r © Excel versions 97 through 2007 along with two competing spreadsheet programs, namely Gnumeric 1.7.11 and OpenOffice.org Calc 2.3.0. We find that the accuracy of various statistical functions in Excel 2007 range from unacceptably bad to acceptable but significantly inferior in comparison to alternative implementations. In...

Perkembangan teknologi yang begitu pesat diberbagai bidang mengharuskan masyarakat mengikuti setiap perkembangannya. Hal ini dilakukan untuk dapat memperoleh informasi dibutuhkan. Salah satunya adalah penggunaan Microsoft Excel dalam pengolahan data. Hampir seluruh baik organisasi, dunia pendidikan, instansi pemerintahan maupun swasta memanfaatkan microsoft excel. Penggunaan dari excel meningka...

We performed an estimation of longitudinal (T1) and transverse relaxation (T2) time using the general-purpose spreadsheet software Microsoft Excel. The Excel tool "solver" is useful for the simultaneous estimation of both T1 and steady-state magnetization from the non-linear least square method. The estimation time is quick enough for the purpose. T1 and T2 estimated from handwritten semi-log p...

The ProReg XL Tool (Profile Regrouping Excel Tool) is a new tool suite designed to rapidly regroup a large number of identical electrophoretic profiles. This tool suite is coded in Visual Basic Application for Microsoft Excel, and thus requires this spreadsheet software to operate. It was designed for use with a new screening strategy of clones from an rrs (16S rDNA) clone library, but it may a...