I read gung's answer to "How to interpret type I, type II, and type III ANOVA and MANOVA?".
Instead of messing with R I'd like to just create my own linear model in a spreadsheet. The problem is that I understood what is SS(something|something) on an intuitive level, but not on a mathematical level. I don't know the formulas.
What I'm looking for is instructions on how to calculate SS(something|something) where something can be a simple effects, an interaction of 2 simple effects, an interaction of a lot of simple effects, or any set thereof (eg., 3 simple effects and the combinations of all of them), in the most general way possible.