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 ...

If you pay employees an hourly wage and use time cards to track their weekly work time, you can use Microsoft Excel to calculate work totals, simplifying your payroll preparation. Especially when you ...

If you're tired of repeated calculations, hard-to-read formulas, and sluggish Excel worksheets, the LET function is your ...

A TechRepublic member wrote for advice on calculating the years, months, and days elapsed between two dates. This tutorial explains the solution provided by TechRepublic contributor Jeff Davis. A ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

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