Microsoft Excel doesn't inherently possess a percentage function, but a simple formula can calculate the required figure for your business. However, Excel cannot recognize a percentage formula, which ...

Excel percentage formulas can get you through problems large and small every day—from determining sales tax (and tips) to calculating increases and decreases. We’ll walk through several examples below ...

Microsoft Excel enables you to quickly find the percentage of two cells by using a formula and changing the cell format. This is especially useful if you have a spreadsheet full of sales data and want ...

Have you ever trusted a tool to simplify your work, only to discover it might be quietly leading you astray? That’s exactly the risk you run with Excel’s “Percent Of” function. On the surface, it ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

In a nutshell: Formulas are a must for incorporating math into spreadsheets, but using them in Microsoft Excel involves a learning curve and can become tedious. This latest update adds a bit of ...

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Learn the difference between formulas and functions and how the two can be combined to unlock the data-crunching potential of Microsoft Excel. The MSU Libraries offer three different Excel workshops: ...

All details in this article are correct as of October 29, 2025. Accessibility to some of the latest Excel features depends on ...