Calculating payroll can be a time-consuming endeavor, so automating as much of the process as possible will save you hundreds of hours by the end of the year. Fortunately, Microsoft Excel comes with a ...

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Accounting for a small business using Microsoft's Excel often requires the use of figures from one year as part of the accounting necessary for the next year's figures. Rather than keep a continuous ...

As a child of the dark ages, I used the word rank to describe something that smelled rotten or suspicious. Rank in Microsoft Excel is, thankfully, totally different. In Excel, rank is a value that ...

If you refer to the same value in an Excel sheet often, treat it as a constant. Anyone who uses Excel, even just a bit, knows how to name a cell or range and then use that name in formulas. It’s ...

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