When you edit the values on your Microsoft Excel worksheet, pressing the "F9" button refreshes the calculation manually. To avoid the tedious task of repetitively pressing this button and risking an ...

Microsoft Excel provides a straightforward way to calculate sales goals, thanks to its built-in formula functions. You can use Excel's features to calculate your sales goals by the hour and ...

This post explains how to calculate Weighted Average in Excel with percentages. In a standard arithmetic average where the sum of values is divided by the number of values, each data value is treated ...

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Finding the exact difference between two dates in Excel may not be the most used feature, but it can be a lot of fun. A classic example is working out someone’s age. It’s not as complicated as it ...

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: ...

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Microsoft has issued a fix for the calculation bug that was discovered in Excel 2007: Two weeks ago, we posted about an issue involving the calculation of numbers around 65,535 and 65,536. As of today ...

Subtraction is the easiest way to count days between two dates in Excel. You can use the arithmetic operator – (minus sign) to subtract one date from another to find the number of days between them.