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Calculating Percentages in Excel

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Percentage simply means ‘out of 100′, so 72% is ’72 out of 100’ and 4% is ‘4 out of 100’, etc. Enter a Percentage Percentage of Total Increase by Percentage Percentage Change Calculating percentages in Excel is easy. Enter a Percentage To enter a percentage in Excel, execute the following steps. 1. First, enter a decimal number. …

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Understanding Named Range, Named Constant, Name Manager in Excel Formulas

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By using names  you can make your formulas much easier to understand and maintain i.e to update, audit, and manage. You can define a name for a cell range, function, constant, or table. Name: A word or string of characters in Excel that represents a cell, range of cells, formula, or constant value. Named Range …

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Dynamic Named Range in Excel

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A dynamic named range expands automatically when you add a value to the range. 1. For example, select the range A1:A4 and name it Prices. 2. Calculate the sum. 3. When you add a value to the range, Excel does not update the sum. To expand the named range automatically when you add a value to the range, execute the following …

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Understanding Various Paste Options in Excel

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This example illustrates the various paste options (Paste, Values, Formulas, Formatting, Paste Special) in Excel . Cell B5 below contains the SUM function which calculates the sum of the range B2:B4. Furthermore, we changed the background color of this cell to yellow and added borders. Paste The Paste option pastes everything. 1. Select cell B5, right click, …

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How To Multiply Numbers in Excel

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Learn how to multiply columns and how to multiply a column by a constant. To multiply numbers in Excel, use the asterisk symbol (*) or the PRODUCT function. 1. The formula below multiplies numbers in a cell. Simply use the asterisk symbol (*) as the multiplication operator. Don’t forget, always start a formula with an equal sign …

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Transpose: Switch ‘Rows to Columns’ or ‘Columns to Rows’ in Excel

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Paste Special Transpose Transpose Function Use the ‘Paste Special Transpose’ option to switch rows to columns or columns to rows in Excel. You can also use the TRANSPOSE function. Paste Special Transpose To transpose data, execute the following steps. 1. Select the range A1:C1. 2. Right click, and then click Copy. 3. Select cell E2. 4. Right …

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Subtract Numbers in Excel

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There’s no SUBTRACT function in Excel. However, there are several ways to subtract numbers in Excel. Are you ready to improve your Excel skills? 1. For example, the formula below subtracts numbers in a cell. Simply use the minus sign (-). Don’t forget, always start a formula with an equal sign (=). 2. The formula below subtracts the …

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How To Calculate Square Root in Excel

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The square root of a number is a value that, when multiplied by itself, gives the number. The SQRT function in Excel returns the square root of a number. 1. First, to square a number, multiply the number by itself. For example, 4 * 4 = 16 or 4^2 = 16. Note: to insert a caret ^ symbol, press SHIFT + …

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Find Percentage Change Between Numbers

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The percent change formula is used very often in Excel. For example, to calculate the Monthly Change and Total Change. 1a. Select cell C3 and enter the formula shown below. 1b. Select cell C3. On the Home tab, in the Number group, apply a Percentage format. 1c. Select cell C3, click on the lower right corner of cell …

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Cell References: Relative, Absolute and Mixed Referencing Examples

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Cell references in Excel are very important. Building a structure or a template in excel using formula one needs to understand the difference between relative, absolute and mixed reference. Relative Reference To identify relative referencing, it is simply the ‘cell name’  as illustrated below. N/B: Cell Name comprises of a column label and a row number of …

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25 Basic Excel Formulas and Functions Worked Examples

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Mastering the basic Excel formulas is critical for beginners to become highly proficient in data analysis. A formula is an expression which calculates the value of a cell. Functions are predefined formulas and are already available in Excel. Every formula in Excel starts with an equal sign, then the function name and in bracket a …

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How to get original number from percent change in Excel

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To calculate the original number based on current value and known percentage change, you can use a simple formula that divides the current value by the percent plus 1. Formula =current/(percent+1) Explanation In the example, the active cell contains this formula: =C6/(B6+1) In this case, Excel first calculates the result of B6 + 1, then divides C6 by the …

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How to get amount with percentage in Excel

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If you have a total and a percentage that presents some amount of the total, you can calculate the amount represented by the percentage with a simple formula that multiples the total by the percentage. Formula = total * percent Explanation In the example, the active cell contains this formula: =C6*D6 To calculate the amount, …

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How to calculate decrease by percentage in Excel

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If you need to decrease a number by a certain percentage, you can use a simple formula that multiplies the number times the percent – 1. Formula =number*(1-percent) Explanation In the example, the active cell contains this formula: =C6*(1-D6) In this case, Excel first calculates the result of 1 – the value in D6 (.2) …

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How to calculate percent variance in Excel

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You can calculate a percent variance by subtracting the original number from the new number, then dividing that result by the original. For example, if the baseline number is 100, and the new number is 110: =(110-100)/100 This formula can be used to calculate things like variance between this year and last year, variance between …

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How to calculate project complete percentage in Excel

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To calculate the percentage complete for a project with a list of tasks, you can use a simple formula based on the COUNTA function. Formula =COUNTA(range1)/COUNTA(range2) Explanation In the example shown, the formula in F6 is: =COUNTA(C5:C11)/COUNTA(B5:B11) How this formula works At the core, this formula simply divides tasks complete by the total task count: …

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How to calculate percent sold in Excel

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To calculate percentage sold, you can use a simple formula that divides sold amount by the total amount. Formula =sold/total Note: when working manually, percentage results are calculated by dividing one number by another, then multiplying by 100 to express as a percentage. However, because Excel can display decimal or fractional values automatically as a percentage by applying …

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How to calculate percent of students absent in Excel

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To calculate percent of students attending a class, given a total class size and the number of students attending, you can use a simple formula that divides students absent (calculated by subtracting attending from total) by the total. The result must be formatted using the percentage number format. Formula =(total-attended)/total Note: when working manually, percentage results …

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How to calculate percent of goal in Excel

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If you need to calculate percent of goal, you can do so with a simple formula that divides the actual by the goal amount, with the result formatted using the percentage number format. This same formula can be used to calculate things like percent of target, percent of budget, percent of forecast, and so on. …

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How to increase by percentage in Excel

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If you need to increase a number by a certain percentage, you can use a simple formula that multiplies the number times the percent + 1. Formula =number*(1+percent) Explanation How this formula works In the example, the active cell contains this formula: =C6*(1+D6) In this case, Excel first calculates the result of 1 + the …

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How to calculate total from percentage in Excel

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If you have an amount and the percentage that the amount represents of a total, you can calculate the total with a formula that simply divides the amount by the percentage. Formula = amount / percent Explanation In the example, the active cell contains this formula: =C6/D6 Excel simply divides the value in cell C6 …

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How to calculate profit margin percentage in Excel

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If you need to calculate a profit margin, you can easily do so with a simple formula that uses the sale price and the cost. Formula =(price-cost)/price Explanation In the example shown, the first formula looks like this: =(B4-C4)/B4 Make sure you use parentheses to control the order of operations. Note that the result will …

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How to calculate percentage of total in Excel

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To calculate percent of a total (i.e. calculate a percent distribution), you can use a formula that simply divides an amount by the total. Formula =amount/total Explanation In the example shown, the formula in D6 is: =C6/$C$11 Note: the result is formatted with Percentage number format to show 25%, 10%, etc. How the formula works In the …

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How to calculate percentage discount in Excel

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If you have a discounted price and an original price, and you want to know the discount as a percentage, you can calculate the percentage discount using a formula that divides the discounted price by the original price and then subtracts the result from one. Formula = 1-(discount_price/original_price) Explanation In the example, the active cell …

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How to calculate percent change in Excel

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If you need to calculate the percentage change between two values in Excel, you can use a formula that divides the change itself by the “old” value. A classic example would be to calculate the percentage between sales last month and sales this month. Formula =(new_value-old_value)/old_value Explanation In the example, the active cell contains this …

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How to get original price from percentage discount in Excel

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If you have a discounted price and know the discount percentage, you can calculate the original price with a simple formula that divides the discounted price by the result of 1 minus the discount percentage. See example below: Formula =price/(1-discount) Explanation How the formula works In the example, the active cell contains this formula: =C6/(1-D6) …

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Superscript and Subscript in Excel

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Superscript or Subscript generally is a number, figure, symbol, or indicator that is smaller than the normal line of type and is set slightly below it (subscript) or above it (superscript). It’s easy to format a character as superscript  or subscript in Excel. 1. For example, double click cell A1. 2. Select the value 2. 3. Right click, and then click Format …

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Examples of Sum with Or Criteria in Excel

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How to sum data based upon multiple criteria? Summing with Or criteria in Excel can be tricky. This article shows several easy to follow examples. 1. We start simple. For example, we want to sum the cells that meet the following criteria: Google or Facebook (one criteria range). 2a. However, if we want to sum the cells that meet the following criteria: …

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Find Most Frequently Occurring Word in Excel Worksheet

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Example of how to find the most frequently occurring word in an Excel Worksheet. You can use the MODE function to find the most frequently occurring number. However, the MODE function only works with numbers. You can use the COUNTIF function to count the number of occurrences of each word. However, we are looking for a single formula that returns the most …

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Subtotal function in Excel

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The SUBTOTAL function ignores any rows that are not included in the result of a filter, no matter which function_num value you use. The SUBTOTAL function is designed for columns of data, or vertical ranges. Use the SUBTOTAL function in Excel instead of SUM, COUNT, MAX, etc. to ignore rows hidden by a filter or manually hidden rows. Rows …

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Count Cells with Text in Excel

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This page illustrates multiple ways to count cells with text in Excel. COUNTIF function to count cells that contain specific text. And COUNTIFS function counts cells based on two or more criteria. 1. Use the COUNTIF function and the asterisk symbol (*) to count cells with text. 2. You can also create an array formula to count cells with text. …

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How to Count Number of Characters in a Cell or Range of Cells in Excel

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Learn how to count the number of characters in a cell or range of cells and how to count how many times a specific character occurs in a cell or range of cells. 1. The LEN function in Excel counts the number of characters in a cell. Explanation: the LEN function counts 2 numbers, 1 space and 6 letters. …

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How to Copy, Paste and Retain Exact Copied Formula in another Cell in Excel

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When you copy a formula, Excel automatically adjusts the cell references for each new cell the formula is copied to. For example, cell A3 below contains a formula which adds the value of cell A2 to the value of cell A1. When you copy this formula to cell B3 (select cell A3, press CTRL + c, select …

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How to calculate number of Days until Birthday

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To calculate the number of days until your birthday in Excel, execute the following steps. 1. Enter the date of birth into cell A2. 2. Enter the TODAY function into cell B2 to return today’s date. 3. The most difficult part in order to get the number of days until your birthday is to find your next birthday. The formula …

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How to create simple Time Sheet in Excel

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This example teaches you how to create a simple timesheet calculator in Excel. Cells that contain formulas are colored light yellow. 1. To automatically calculate the next 4 days and dates when you enter a start date, use the formulas below. 2. Select the cells containing the times. 3. Right click, click Format Cells, and select the right …

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Find Last Day of the Month in Excel

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To get the date of the last day of the month in Excel, use the EOMONTH (End of Month) function. 1. For example, get the date of the last day of the current month. Note: the EOMONTH function returns the serial number of the date. Apply a Date format to display the date. 2. For example, get the date of …

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How to Separate Text Strings in Excel

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This example teaches you how to separate strings in Excel. Asides from using ‘Convert Text to Columns Wizard’ in data tab, you can as well follow the steps below to Separate Text Strings in Excel . The problem we are dealing with is that we need to tell Excel where we want to separate the string. In case of …

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How to calculate Number of Instances in Excel

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This example describes how to count the number of instances of text (or a number) in a cell. 1. Use the LEN function to get the length of the string (25 characters, including spaces). 2. The SUBSTITUTE function replaces existing text with new text in a string. LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,B1,””)) equals 13 (the length of the string without …

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Excel Two-Way Lookup Example

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This example teaches you how to lookup a value in a two-dimensional range. We use the INDEX and the MATCH function in Excel. Below you can find the sales of different ice cream flavors in each month. 1. To find the position of Feb in the range A2:A13, use the MATCH function. The result is 2. 2. To find …

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How to get number of days, weeks, months or years between two dates in Excel

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To get the number of days, weeks or years between two dates in Excel, use the DATEDIF function. The DATEDIF function has three arguments. 1. Fill in “d” for the third argument to get the number of days between two dates. Note: =A2-A1 produces the exact same result! 2. Fill in “m” for the third argument to …

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