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 ...

Microsoft Excel doesn't inherently possess a percentage function, but a simple formula can calculate the required figure for your business. However, Excel cannot recognize a percentage formula, which ...

Although calculating a percentage in Microsoft Excel is easy, getting it to display properly requires a little extra effort, because Excel displays percentages in decimal format by default. For ...

Finding percentage change in Excel requires calculating the difference between two numbers, dividing that difference by the successive number and changing the decimal value to a percentage. In case of ...

Have you ever trusted a tool to simplify your work, only to discover it might be quietly leading you astray? That’s exactly the risk you run with Excel’s “Percent Of” function. On the surface, it ...

To calculate the Consumer Price Index between two years in Excel, take a sum of all the amounts spent on the basket of products over those two years. Then use the following formula to find the CPI ...

Everyone likes a bonus, but sometimes calculating one can be a bit complicated--at first. Here's how to calculate the amount in Microsoft Excel that you or your staff will get paid. If you’ve ever had ...

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Using Excel's number format tool means you can ensure your spreadsheet both looks the part and handles your data exactly how you want it to. In this article, I'll explain what each number format is, ...