If you're tired of repeated calculations, hard-to-read formulas, and sluggish Excel worksheets, the LET function is your solution. It assigns simple names to complex calculations, making formulas ...

Over the last few months, I’ve written several articles about Excel’s newish dynamic array functions. In many cases, they can replace older, more complex expressions. The new functions do all that ...

To calculate the Consumer Price Index between two years in Excel, take a sum of all the amounts spent on the basket of products over those two years. Then use the following formula to find the CPI ...

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Calculating data fluctuations-- also called variance -- is a multi-step process that requires total accuracy. Excel 2010 provides two basic formulas for calculating fluctuations, depending on whether ...

Learn how to calculate payback and discounted payback in Excel with formulas, SCAN, XMATCH, LET, and SWITCH, plus partial-year and error handling ...

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Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet platform used to organize and interpret data. With Excel, you make calculations and analyze statistical data based on columns and rows of information. Excel ...

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How to use VBA’s InputBox function to select a range on the fly in Excel Your email has been sent Often, you’ll want Excel users to specify a range that the app then uses in an automated way.

What Is a Payback Period? The payback period is the amount of time (usually measured in years) it takes to recover an initial investment outlay—as measured in after-tax cash flows. For example, if a ...