As a child of the dark ages, I used the word rank to describe something that smelled rotten or suspicious. Rank in Microsoft Excel is, thankfully, totally different. In Excel, rank is a value that ...

How to Calculate a Running Total in Excel Learn to create cumulative sums in Microsoft Excel with these step-by-step instructions and screenshots.

How to Calculate Fluctuations in Excel. Calculating data fluctuations-- also called variance -- is a multi-step process that requires total accuracy. Excel 2010 provides two basic formulas for ...

Excel for the web supports all three ranking functions. If you’re unfamiliar with Excel’s three ranking functions, consider reading How to calculate rank in an Excel sheet.

Several basic templates are available for Microsoft Excel that make it simple to calculate production costs.

Percentages aren't always easy to calculate, but one of the best tools in Excel's toolbox is calculating percentages for you. Here's how to do it.

Excel now recognizes the selected cells as numbers and can perform calculations with them without errors. Click an empty cell on the spreadsheet, and push the "=" key to begin entering a calculation.

Understand the basics of the current ratio, including its use in assessing a company's liquidity and learn how it is calculated in Microsoft Excel.

We show you how to use Excel to count days between two dates using the DAYS, DATEDIF, NETWORKDAYS, and TODAY functions, and Subtraction.

[Updated: Sept 26, 2007 @ 4.30 am - The Excel 2007 team have been busy investigating and coming up with a fix for the Excel 2007 bug I discussed yesterday.