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What’s New in SpreadsheetWeb – April 2026
April’s release focuses on improving how information is presented and managed in your applications. With the introduction of the new Simple Label control and a series of enhancements to label handling in Elements and Automated App Creation, building clean, intuitive...
Introducing Elements: Build Web Apps from Excel Without Named Ranges
The old workflow had a catch If you have ever built an application with SpreadsheetWeb before, you know the drill. Before uploading your Excel file, you had to go back into the spreadsheet and manually define named ranges for every single cell or range you wanted to...
What’s New in SpreadsheetWeb – March 2026
The March 2026 release introduces two major enhancements designed to make building and managing applications faster, more intuitive, and more scalable. This update focuses on improving both the way applications are created from Excel models and how users interact with...
Populating SpreadsheetWeb Applications with Publicly Available Data Using AI Prompts
Building data-driven applications in SpreadsheetWeb has traditionally required one of two things: either a developer writes a custom API integration to pull external data into cells, or a user manually copies and pastes values from external sources on a regular basis....
Turn Your Excel Models into AI Tools: Making a SpreadsheetWeb App AI-Consumable
Most teams start their AI journey by letting a chatbot answer questions. The real leap happens when AI can do work—run your pricing model, validate a configuration, evaluate eligibility, or generate an output that used to require a specialist. SpreadsheetWeb...
What’s New in SpreadsheetWeb – February 2026
We’re excited to share the latest improvements in the February 2026 SpreadsheetWeb Hub release (26.2.0). Building on the new release versioning format introduced in January, this update brings a major runtime upgrade, stronger validation for Excel-driven apps, and a...
AI Didn’t Kill the Spreadsheet — It Supercharged It
When generative AI went mainstream after ChatGPT’s public release in November 2022, a popular storyline took hold: AI would replace spreadsheets. If you can ask a chatbot for insights, formulas, and charts, why keep working in a grid? But the reality playing out...
Turning Excel Files Into Web Applications with Stateful, Persistent Data Storage
Many Excel-based applications are not transactional in nature, they are stateful, evolving tools where each user works with the same model over time. A daily calorie tracking app is a perfect example: the underlying Excel logic stays the same, but new rows of data are...
Spreadsheets in Engineering: Still Everywhere, Still Useful, Still Risky
Walk into almost any engineering team, civil, mechanical, chemical, electrical, environmental, biomedical, and you’ll find the same quiet “unofficial standard” sitting next to the CAD/CAE tools and code repos: spreadsheets. They’re not glamorous. They’re not always...