Merged cells are great for presentation purposes but not so ideal when you're creating a model or a complex spreadsheet. It can make copying cells or formulas painful as you can get an error or unintended results when doing so. However, there's a wa ...
When you're dealing with complex spreadsheets in Excel, it can sometimes be difficult to tell which cells are safe to delete and which ones you need to keep to ensure everything is working properly. Even cells that look empty could contain formulas. ...
You can use Excel to create models, templates, and also to do analysis. This will be the first in a new series of posts to do with Excel-related analysis and how to set up a question and answer it accurately. In this analysis, I'm going to look at h ...
Are you looking for an easy way to log and track your time in Excel? Below, I'll show you how you can keep track of the time you spend on tasks without the need for a complicated template or to even open up Excel every time to enter in your time. Wi ...
To enter data in the price to earnings ratio calculator, start from top to bottom. Tabbing over or hitting enter will update the calculations. Current Stock Information Price $ EPS $ P/E & ...
Spreadsheets can allow you to analyze data and create reports efficiently. But sometimes the tasks that are involved can be difficult or appear to be time-consuming. The good news is that there's a lot of automation you can achieve in Excel, and it ...
Do you want to know how to calculate how many hours and minutes have elapsed between two times? Below, I'll show you how to do that with Excel formulas. The difference won't be in just fractions of days or hours but real minutes and hours that make ...
An amortization table is a useful tool when you need to calculate interest payments, principal payments, and to track the balance that's owed on a loan. However, you don't have to create a full schedule to get these values and below I'll show you tw ...
Are you entering multiple lines of text in Excel and want to break it up into multiple lines? You don't have to adjust the cell size to do it and below I'll show you some ways that you can manage cells that contain a lot of text, including how to ma ...
In previous posts, I went over how to calculate the internal rate of return and how to discount future cash flows to arrive at a net present value. Today, I'll go over another way you can evaluate projects, and that's using the payback period. The p ...
