Before computers, accountants used special paper with columns to summarize general ledger entries. Columnar worksheets made accounting projects easier than if they were written on notebook paper.

How do you set up a worksheet with alternating colored rows like the traditional columnar pad design? There are many ways, but the easiest, for both Excel 2003 and 2007 is with a Conditional ...

Q. Call me old-fashioned, but I rather liked the way the rows in columnar pads used alternating colors. It made it easier to read across the spreadsheet page. Why doesn’t Excel come that way? A. I don ...