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 ...

Excel is probably Microsoft’s most popular developer tool. With a built-in functional programming language that now supports lambdas and variables, Excel has become a tool that people build businesses ...

Whether presenting a project at school, delivering a critical report at work, or simply trying to make sense of your budget, graphs are efficient and visually appealing means of conveying complex ...

Microsoft Excel can present two series of data points together on the horizontal axis, but if the number scale for each series dramatically differs, the data will not be readable. Using a two-sided ...

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 ...

Excel's PERCENTOF function returns the percentage that a subset of data contributes to a whole dataset, saving you from having to create additional or complex formulas to generate the same outcome.

They’re easy to learn, and they’ll make you a lot more productive. by Adam Lacey and Deborah Ashby The past 10 years have seen a wave of innovative big data software designed to analyze, manipulate, ...

If you use Excel 40 hours a week (and those are the weeks you are on vacation), welcome to the MrExcel channel. Home to 2,400 free Excel tutorials. Bill "MrExcel" Jelen is the author of 67 books about ...

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Have you ever trusted a tool to simplify your work, only to discover it might be quietly leading you astray? That’s exactly the risk you run with Excel’s “Percent Of” function. On the surface, it ...

Adding a graph in a spreadsheet is no big deal as long as you know the process. However, do you know that you can make a curved line graph in Excel or Google Sheets? If not, you should check out this ...