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 ...

Finding percentage change in Excel requires calculating the difference between two numbers, dividing that difference by the successive number and changing the decimal value to a percentage. In case of ...

Have you ever stared at a spreadsheet, struggling to make sense of percentage calculations that just don’t seem to add up? Whether it’s a confusing formula, a misstep with zero values, or an ...

Microsoft Office Excel includes dozens of function options to help you automatically generate values in cells across a spreadsheet. If you have a lengthy column of numbers that you need to multiply by ...

Monitoring sales revenue allows you to track your business' profit, but equally important is understanding where those revenues are derived. If you sell multiply products, or categories of products, ...

GPA doesn’t have a fixed scale and usually varies across universities. So, we will create a scale table in Excel to decide the parameters and then use it in an example. We will need three parameters ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Katharine Beer is a writer, editor, and archivist based in New York. She has ...

Using Excel's number format tool means you can ensure your spreadsheet both looks the part and handles your data exactly how you want it to. In this article, I'll explain what each number format is, ...

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Calculating how far a number has declined from one year to the next is pretty easy if you are only considering a one year period. You subtract the current year's number from last year's number, then ...

Let's face it: Even the best budgets can't always predict your actual expenses. Things happen. Unexpected costs arise. That's life. That's why it's so useful to review your budget after a project is ...