Do you often stare at a spreadsheet, deal with endless data, and feel like there has to be a better way to get things done? Well, there is. Over years of working with Excel, I have stumbled upon a ...

SUMIF, SUMIFS, AVERAGEIFS, and COUNTIFS are commonly used accounting functions in Microsoft Excel. These formulas are used to calculate cell values based on the criteria you have described or ...

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...

Fewer parentheses, fewer headaches.

Microsoft Excel provides numerous mathematical functions that save time and improve accuracy in data entry. Percentage markups are used in retail, government and business environments to calculate the ...

Speak with confidence at your next financial meeting by calculating your gross profit with Microsoft Excel. Excel provides several built-in functions and operators to calculate total cost, revenue and ...

Excel’s Date & Time functions ease the workload for bookkeepers, project planners, HR departments, and other jobs where time is money. The four functions covered here—ISOWEEKNUM, WEEKNUM, WORKDAY, ...

Too many financial decisions are made without factoring in the time value of money. Whether providing financial planning advice related to a client’s retirement, advising a client about a business ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a tangled mess of Excel formulas, wondering if there’s a simpler way to get the results you need? You’re not alone. Whether you’re managing sales data, tracking ...

Have you ever found yourself endlessly dragging formulas across rows or columns in Excel, only to realize there’s got to be a better way? Maybe you’ve spent hours creating helper columns or ...