Broadcasting

Broadcasting is an array calculation behavior in Excel formulas. In essence, Excel resizes arrays to be the same size. The second range results in an array with only 1 item. Broadcasting only pops up if the value to copy is unambiguous. When it’s not clear what value to copy, Excel will use #N/A.

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 53 words · Brianna Suarez

Bubble chart

The Bubble Chart is a built-in chart pop in in Excel. Like a regular XY scatter chart, both axes are used to plot values there is no category axis.

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 29 words · Charles Wilson

Build friendly messages with concatenation

Dynamic messages give your spreadsheets a nice polish. You’ll find many opportunities to use concatenation in your spreadsheets. Don’t be alarmed by this fancy-sounding word. Concatenation simply means “join together”. Again note: all text must be enclosed in double quotes. If you forget to do this, Excel won’t let you enter the formula. For example, perhaps you maintain data in a filtered table. The video below shows how to use the TEXT function to increment a padded number (i....

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 119 words · Mark Miller

Build hyperlink with VLOOKUP

Explanation The hyperlink function allows you to create a working link with a formula. It takes two arguments:link_locationand, optionally,friendly_name. The lookup value comes from column E, and VLOOKUP is configured for exact match. The result is fed into HYPERLINK aslink_location, and the text in column E is used forfriendly_name. HYPERLINK returns a working link. you could use HYPERLINK to create a clickable hyperlink with a formula.

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 66 words · Sarah Davis PhD

BYCOL Function

BYCOL can accept an abbreviated “eta lamba” syntax for simple operations like SUM, as explained below. The short form is for convenience. It is concise and easy to read. However, the behavior cannot be customized. The long-form syntax uses the LAMBDA function and can be customized as desired. See below for an example of BYCOL formulas that use both options. However, you are free to use whatever name you like....

April 14, 2025 · 2 min · 244 words · Jeffery Zamora

BYROW Function

BYROW can accept an abbreviated “eta lamba” syntax for simple operations like SUM, as explained below. The short form is for convenience. It is concise and easy to read. However, the behavior cannot be customized. The long-form syntax uses the LAMBDA function and can be customized as desired. See below for an example of BYROW formulas that use both options. However, you are free to use whatever name you like....

April 14, 2025 · 2 min · 260 words · Alison Campos

CAGR formula examples

Explanation CAGR stands for Compound Annual Growth Rate. CAGR is the average rate of return for an investment over a period of time. There are several ways to calculate CAGR in Excel. We have these values already in column E so we can use them directly in GEOMEAN the function. Geometric mean can be used to calculate average rate of return with variable rates. RRI Function The Excel RRI function returns an equivalent interest rate for the growth of an investment....

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 95 words · Thomas Klein

Calculate a ratio from two numbers

Then the first number is divided by the GCD. On the right, the same operations are performed with the second number. So, altogether, we have: Note that the final result of this formula is a text value. The greatest common divisor is the largest integer that goes into all supplied numbers without a remainder. For example, =GCD(60,36) returns 12.

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 59 words · Traci Wade

Calculate active worksheet

About This Shortcut This shortcut will calculate the active worksheet only. Related videos The videos below demonstrate this shortcut. Shortcuts for formulas

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 22 words · Christopher Hartman

Calculate compound interest

There is no periodic payment in this example, so we use zero forpmt. Finally, we provide the present value (pv) as -1000.

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 22 words · Tiffany Brown

Calculate cumulative loan interest

To do this, we set up CUMIPMT like this: rate- The interest rate per period. pv- The present value, or total value of all payments now, 5000, from cell C5. end_period- the last period of interest, 60 in this case for the full loan term. With these inputs, the CUMIPMT function returns -592.91, the total interest paid for the loan.

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 60 words · Toni Allen

Calculate cumulative loan principal payments

To do this, we set up CUMPRINC like this: rate- The interest rate per period. pv- The present value, or total value of all payments now, 5000, from cell C5. end_period- the last period of interest, 60 in this case for the full loan term. With these inputs, the CUMPRINC function returns 5,000, which matches the original loan value as expected.

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 61 words · Ashley Martinez

Calculate date overlap in days

This makes the formula slightly easier to read and write. January 1, 1900 is 1, January 2, 1900 is 2, and so on. More recent dates are much larger numbers. For example, January 1, 1999 is 36161, and January 1, 2010 is 40179. By adding 1, we include the end date in the count. The result is 30-Jun-2024, since June 30 is earlier than July 1. The result is 1-Jun-2024, since June 1 is later than May 1....

April 14, 2025 · 1 min · 151 words · Shane Dominguez