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How to Report Top and Bottom Results Using Dynamic Arrays in...
In How to Use Excel’s LET Function, I showed several examples of a powerful function that Microsoft added to Excel 365 in the summer...
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How to Report Top and Bottom Results Using Dynamic Arrays in Excel
In How to Use Excel’s LET Function, I showed several examples of a powerful function that Microsoft added to Excel 365 in the summer...
How to Report GL Account Groups in Excel
Believe it or not, this income statement is quite sophisticated. It's not nearly as simple-minded as it looks.
In fact, this income statement illustrates a...
How to Use Array Formulas to Report Groups of Accounts
Often, in accounting, marketing, and other departments, we'd like to report and analyze groups of items rather than one item at a time.
In Part...
Learn How to Use Excel to Track the US Recovery from the Covid Recession
The Covid recession is the worst recession the world has experienced since the Great Depression. And the Recovery Tracker workbook and Excel training can...
Track Key Economic Indicators Every Weekday with this Excel Dashboard
You can update this Excel dashboard report every weekday—with one command—if you have Excel 2016 or above.
This report of current economic data introduces you...
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Add Low-Overwhelm Context to Your Line Charts
The data you display in charts often takes on new meaning when you display it in the context of other data.
One way to add...
Business & Economics
Chart Your Rate of Change to Reveal Hidden Business Performance
What insights can you gain from the following Excel chart of Apple's quarterly revenues over the past 18 years?
I see three things. First, their...
Formulas & Functions
How to Use Conditional-Format Formulas to Change Background Colors
"I have an Excel table with a column that will be filled with 'yes' or 'no. When a user enters 'yes' to a cell,...
Excel Methods
How and Why to Define Excel Range Names with a Worksheet...
In Excel, a name can be global to a workbook or local to a worksheet. The traditional method we all use when we create...
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An Introduction to Excel’s Normal Distribution Functions
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When a visitor asked me how to generate a random number from a Normal distribution she set me to thinking about doing statistics...
Why INDEX-MATCH Is Far Better Than VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP in Excel
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Excel’s VLOOKUP function is more popular than the INDEX-MATCH function combination, probably because when Excel users need to look up data then a "lookup" function...
How to Delete Blank or Unneeded Rows, Method 1
When you bring data from another source into an Excel worksheet, the data often includes rows that you’ll want to delete. Often, you’ll want...