The key to being a happy and successful user of spreadsheets is to learn as much as you can about working with Excel. This page links to resources and tools that I recommend.
Books and web sites useful for learning basic and advanced Excel techniques.
Jane's ideas about how to create good spreadsheets.
Some Excel applications that Jane has created. Most are statistical tools. There is also a "data-table" producer for the output from Solver.
Information about workshops that Jane presents for the benefit of IDS graduate assistants and others with similar needs.
Revised, 2011-03-03, by Jane Hagstrom.