With the current version of Excel, you can nest up to 64 different IF functions — which is basically like chaining a bunch of ELSEIF conditions in a programming language. Note, though, that just because it’s possible to nest a large amount of IF statements, doesn’t mean it’s a goo...
The biggest strength you need in Excel is troubleshooting. There are many reasons a formula won’t work, identifying what is going wrong makes it simple to correct. One of the tasks I did everyday was importing data into Excel. This causes problems as the imported text often behaves differen...
This is certainly possible. If you are using simple linear regression, then the p-value being so low only means that there is a significant difference between the population correlation and zero. It doesn’t mean that the population value of r is high; it just means that it is not likely...
You can also try using this formula Reply Also, I need to calculate the age of a person and I use =datedif(xx,xx,"y"). But, again,. the calculation won't work for any date prior to 1900. Hello!
This doesn’t require an extra operator, just more thinking about the problem. What is another way to describe the problem? We want to add the sum of Harry’s sales to the sum of John’s sales. This gives us another option. We can get this result with the following formula: ...
Since 2+2 is obviously not five, you will see the response come back “Try again.” But if you copy the formula to cell F3, you will see that it uses the “Value_IF_True” response to give us “Okay.” If you are at or entering an advanced level with Excel, that simple function...
It doesn’t matter how you do it, as long as you end up having data highlighted. You cannot select data in multiple columns for splitting. So, you couldn’t select a cell in column A and data in column B as well. Don’t highlight the name of the column, unless you want to ...
To create a hyperlink without using a formula, you can press CTRL + K on Windows and ⌘ + K on an Apple Mac computer to create a simple hyperlink. Whilst this will ‘get the job done’ it doesn’t offer the same level of control that using a formula allows for. HYPERLINK is the...
Let’s add a COUNT function in the sample spreadsheet. This time we’ll type it directly in to the formula to find a helpful guide that Microsoft has programmed in to make things easier. 1. Insert a new line above line 12. Simply right-click on the row label at the left of row 12...
Great. Let’s get down to business. It doesn’t really matterwhyyou need to add or subtract time, but let’s assume you’re a contract worker and have been logging hours on a weekly invoice. Obviously, you don’t want to cheat yourself out of precious hours of hard labor, but you ...