With Excel, you can create simple calculators that speed up calculations you perform frequently. Among the many calculators that you can create with Excel is one that handles the pricing of options, ...

Commercial off-the-shelf software such as Microsoft Excel lets you automate engineering functions (references 1 through 3). This Design Idea explains how you can use Excel to calculate the values of ...

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As a spreadsheet software program, Microsoft Excel has many useful features for a small business's productivity. Chief among these is the ability to use formulas to make various calculations with the ...

If you're tired of repeated calculations, hard-to-read formulas, and sluggish Excel worksheets, the LET function is your solution. It assigns simple names to complex calculations, making formulas ...

Learn how to calculate payback and discounted payback in Excel with formulas, SCAN, XMATCH, LET, and SWITCH, plus ...

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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 ...

Q. I have prepared projections for a proposed project, and I want to calculate the internal rate of return. Instead of using Excel’s IRR function, should I use simple math formulas so others can ...

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