Colm O'Regan: How Microsoft Excel can become a column of your existence

What has 17bn cells and turned 40 years old this year? No, it’s not the American private prison system. It’s Excel, the much-maligned spreadsheet programme.

What has 17bn cells and turned 40 years old this year? No, it’s not the American private prison system. It’s Excel, the much-maligned spreadsheet programme.

It’s always been condemned by lazy fools as somehow the death of creativity. It’s shorthand for a job that oppresses the soul. But I think it deserves its flowers.