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 ...

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 ...

You have three ways to calculate sales price in Excel. First, you can apply a flat profit to the cost of the item as a dollar value. Adding your maximum markup to your cost will give you the maximum ...

A seasonal index is a way of measuring the seasonal variation -- that is, to measure the change that is due to seasonal changes in demand -- of a variable, typically sales. For example, a beachfront ...

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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: ...