Excel Help: Use Parentheses To Control Order Of Calculations
Problem: In what order does Excel perform calculations? Is 2+3*4 equal to 20 or 14?
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Formula Auditing in Microsoft Excel: How to Track a Formula's Calculations
Want to know how a formula is being calculated every step of the way? The tools in Excel’s Formula Auditing group can help.
Continue ReadingHow to Calculate Growth Rate in Excel - Tips and Help from Mr. Excel
Even though there may not be a predefined function in Excel that allows to calculate a growth rate, we can still use the application to solve these …
Continue ReadingHow to Figure Out Lottery Probability in Excel
Are the lottery odds ever in your favor? If you know the top prize, you can use Excel to figure out the lottery probability and see if it’s …
Continue ReadingLearn How to Measure the Accuracy of a Sales Forecast: Excel Forecast Accuracy Calculation and Formula
There are several different ways that you can use to develop a sales forecast, but how do you measure how accurate that sales forecast is? Mr. Excel …
Continue ReadingLearn How To Raise A Number To A Fraction To Find The Square Or Third Root With This Microsoft Excel Tutorial
Problem: Excel offers a SQRT function to find the square root of a number. What if you need to figure out the third root or the fourth root?
Continue ReadingLearn How To Total Minutes That Exceed An Hour With This Microsoft Excel Tutorial
Problem: You have a series of cells with minutes and seconds from a number of experiments. The times are in the format of 123:45, meaning 123 minutes …
Continue ReadingMicrosoft Excel Help: Before Deleting A Cell, Find Out If Other Cells Rely On It
Problem: Before deleting a section of the worksheet you believe is no longer needed know that if you delete the cell and some other far-off range …
Continue ReadingMicrosoft Excel Help: Calculate A Trendline Forecast
Having a little trouble calculating an Excel trendline? Try this approach.
Continue ReadingMicrosoft Excel Help: Convert Text To Minutes And Seconds
Problem: Someone in another department set up a spreadsheet with hundreds of time values. However, instead of using Excel time formats, they entered …
Continue ReadingMicrosoft Excel Help: Round Prices To Next Highest $5
Need to round numerical values in a non-standard manner in Excel? Read on to learn how.
Continue ReadingMultiple Regression in Microsoft Excel: How to Build A Model for Predicting Sales
Problem: You run an ice cream stand. After 10 days of sales, you discover that you either make a lot of money or nearly go broke. As you analyze …
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