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

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Probability calculations determine the chance of a specific event occurring. This calculation factors in the number of positive events with respect to the total number of possible results. When you ...

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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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If you support users who have trouble entering data and printing an Excel sheet, use this eight-step approach to create a foolproof form. It’s just too easy to kvetch about how incompetent some end ...

REDUCE allows you to iterate through your data, building your result step-by-step, in the same way a loop operates in a programming language. Instead of scattering your intermediate calculations ...