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Comparison Formulas
Time to walk through another exciting Excel adventure 🙂 Today, we’re zooming in on an interesting question I recently received: “How can I highlight correct answers on an Excel worksheet for my granddaughter’s multiplication tables?” Sounds like a marvelously practical application of Excel, doesn’t it? Well, let’s dive in and find out how we can…
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Welcome to this tutorial on how to find invalid characters in Microsoft Excel. In this tutorial, we will explore different methods including formulas and conditional formatting to detect and highlight characters you define as “invalid” in your Excel worksheets. Since you can easily customize the list of “invalid” characters, this approach is extremely flexible and…
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This tutorial shows how to use the SUMIFS function to sum the amounts for records that fall between two dates. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to enter the desired date range into two input cells, and have Excel immediately sum the values that fall between these dates, even if the…
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This tutorial demonstrates how to count the number of date cells that fall between two specific dates using COUNTIFS. We will start with a simple exercise using a single condition and gradually progress to more complex exercises involving multiple conditions and comparison operators. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to perform…
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Today, we will look at using conditional formatting with formulas, data validation, and comparison formulas. Think you are up for it? Let’s do this thing. Let’s say we have a worksheet that computes the payment of a loan. We can use the PMT function to easily accomplish this task. The PMT function requires three arguments…
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