Excel’s Date & Time functions ease the workload for bookkeepers, project planners, HR departments, and other jobs where time is money. The four functions covered here—ISOWEEKNUM, WEEKNUM, WORKDAY, ...

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 ...

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); ...

If you need to find a particular value in an Excel sheet, the quickest way is to use a lookup formula. The most popular functions to use in these formulas are VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP, which search across ...

Wouldn’t it be great if you could be an Excel wizard without putting in all the time and effort needed to learn how to get around Excel and make it do what you want it to do? Formulas are one of the ...

When working with large datasets in Excel, the performance of formulas plays a critical role in determining calculation speed and overall efficiency. Understanding which formulas perform best and how ...

These two keyboard shortcuts will let you insert the current date and time in any cell of your spreadsheet. It doesn’t matter if you are using Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel; you can use these ...

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