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You can create a named range that refers to a single cell in Excel. You can also select a group of cells on the worksheet and make it a named range. After you define Excel names, you can use the names in a formula, instead of using a constant value
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To find the break-even, you need to take your variable expenses and subtract them from your revenue or sales. This is knows as the Contribution Margin. **Variable** expenses are: 1. Direct material 2. Commission per unit 3. Hourly production wages 4. Shipping cost 5. Packaging Variable expenses are those expenses
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When you import data into Excel, occasionally a column of data will only have a key field listed one time. An example would be States only showing once at the start of each data set. See the image below. _Notice_ **column A**. It only displays the state for the first
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When you enter zip codes in Excel, the leading zeros will get dropped. Here are some examples. Massachusetts starts with 01 and 02. Hew Hampshire is 03, Maine is 04, Vermont is 05, Connecticut 06, and New Jersey is 07 and 08. So when you type in the zip codes
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Conditional formatting is one of my favorite features in Excel. I like it because I’m a visual person. Excel has a lot of predefined rules in Conditional Formatting, but it is very easy to write a formula if the predefined rules don’t have what you need. An Executive
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You can use data validation to restrict the type of data or the values that users enter into a cell. An example would be if you have a column for Departments, and someone puts in Accounting but another person types in Acct. (abbreviating Accounting). Data validation keeps bad data from
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There may be times when you do not want a cell reference to change when filling cells. Unlike relative references, **absolute references** do not change when copied or filled. You can use an absolute reference to keep a row and/or column **constant**. The keyboard shortcut for absolute reference is
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Excel has built-in custom lists. You can sort data by days of the week or months of the year. Or create your own custom lists to sort by any other characteristic that doesn’t sort well alphabetically, such as July to June; October to September; S, M, L, XL. With
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When the numbers in your Excel file vary widely from data series to data series and you want to create a chart, the chart to create is a **Combo** chart. You would also use a combo chart when you have mixed types of data (for example, revenue and net income
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Need to calculate the weighted average for work or school? There are two ways to do it but the easiest is to use the sumproduct function in Excel. It is easy to calculate the average. Just use the average function in MS Excel which will show you the calculated “central”
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You can’t import recurring or repeating events into the Google Calendar. Here is a workaround I use so you can pull in the recurring events. The top row of your csv file should contain the fields needed to import into Google Calendar. I added a field called Recurring and
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Need to apply conditional formatting to groups of data? It can be done, you need to sort and have a “helper” column. This short video demonstrates how to add a helper column and use an IF statement and then you the ISODD or ISEVEN function statement with conditional formatting. Video