Grid is not “Excel for iPad” as much as it is a digital scrapbook laid out on a grid — until Leong gets around to adding basic formula creation, at least.

Grid software maker Platform Computing releases a module that enables Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program to use the power of a grid computing system.

A Microsoft designer behind apps like Excel has built a spreadsheet app for the touch-screen era.

The main page has drop down lists to control results and that can change the number of rows in the grid. So I can use the same set of data, but filter it down so I only export 60 rows and it works.

Grid software maker Platform Computing releases a module that enables Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program to use the power of a grid computing system.