When Excel first hit the market, businesses flocked to use it for their management needs. But it’s far from the only option. There are many free alternatives to Microsoft Excel you should know about.

Proton Sheets adds fully encrypted, collaborative spreadsheets to Proton Drive as the service expands its workspace tools.

A Proton Drive account (which provides a free tier with 5GB of storage) is required to use Proton Sheets. The Sheets tool is ...

It's the latest in Proton's growing line of privacy-focused alternatives to Microsoft's and Google's office apps.

Smart penny pinchers know there are a ton of freebies around the web. You have to be savvy about where you search since there are a ton of dangerous downloads lurking ...

Workplace visualization tools make the world go round, and will definitely liven up your before-lunch presentation. If you’ve got hard numbers to display to the masses, or graph-scribed projections ...

I discovered artificial intelligence tool GPT Excel in my quest to cut down on all the busywork it takes to create and update spreadsheets. Carly Quellman, aka Carly Que, is a multimedia strategist ...

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