When you enter a number into an Excel cell that looks like a date, such as "Jun-1" or "6/1," Excel automatically adjusts the format of the cell to display a date, so you may not know that Excel ...

If you are using Microsoft Excel to manage numerical data, at some point you're inevitably going to display percentages. Doing so can give you a new insight, or make summarizing heaps of data a bit ...

Calculating payroll can be a time-consuming endeavor, so automating as much of the process as possible will save you hundreds of hours by the end of the year. Fortunately, Microsoft Excel comes with a ...

In your school life, you have learned about average and the method to calculate it. The formula to calculate the average is very simple. You just have to add all the values in the given data and ...

Percentage Formula: Percentages are a fundamental concept in maths, used frequently in daily life. It represents parts of a whole as fractions of 100. They're symbolised by the "%" symbol.

Calculating Simple Interest is an excellent method to judge your savings in advance. However, calculating it for various interests and principal sums could be complex. This is where Excel comes to ...

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As a child of the dark ages, I used the word rank to describe something that smelled rotten or suspicious. Rank in Microsoft Excel is, thankfully, totally different. In Excel, rank is a value that ...

A straight ranking result is easy using one of Microsoft Excel’s ranking functions. Calculating a conditional rank is even easier if you let an Excel PivotTable do all the work. Image: ...

Generating random lists of numbers in Excel is handy for randomizing lists, statistical sampling, and many other uses. However, Excel's random number functions are volatile, meaning they change ...

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To calculate the returns on your mutual fund investments made on different dates, using XIRR formula in excel makes the task easier. You may be investing through SIP or making lump sum investments on ...