When you dive into Excel, you quickly realize the power it holds for data analysis and prediction. Two of the most potent tools at your disposal are the TREND and FORECAST functions. These functions ...

Before businesses were lucky enough to be able to create sales forecasts in Excel, business owners had to enter numbers on columnar pads and add the figures with a calculator. If a single number ...

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Analysis of time-based series data can help us understand the prevailing trend in the market. One-click Forecast in Excel does this pretty well. As such, it can help you understand the current as well ...

As a new business, your spreadsheets are likely full of contacts, full of forecasts, full of customer data, and much, much more. But, gathering all of that information into Excel sheets is one thing – ...

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