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A straight ranking result is easy using one of Microsoft Excel’s ranking functions. Calculating a conditional rank is even easier if you let an Excel PivotTable do all the work. Image: ...

As a spreadsheet software program, Microsoft Excel has many useful features for a small business's productivity. Chief among these is the ability to use formulas to make various calculations with the ...

Creating a running total (or a cumulative sum, as it is known in Excel) is easy once you get the hang of it. Many business owners use cumulative sums to track expenses, revenue, employee hours and ...

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An Excel spreadsheet can become an indispensable tool for your business when you harness its power for keeping records and doing computations. Take advantage of the program's seemingly limitless ...

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 ...