If you have worked on a dataset that contains numbers and strings, you may have realized there’s no in-built function that can be used to extract numbers from a string. Sometimes you may have a dataset that you need to extract numbers from its strings. Doing this manually may be tiresome and time-consuming. Thankfully, this
Frequency is the total number of text in a given dataset. Sometimes, you may have a large dataset that you need to check the number of occurrences of a given text. To check the frequency of text in a larger dataset is tedious and may be time-consuming. Several methods and functions can ease counting the
By default, Excel automatically adjusts cell references of your formula when you copy and paste them to another location in the worksheet. However, the adjustment only happens when using relative references in your worksheet. You need to introduce a dollar sign in the formula to convert relative references to absolute references. Thankfully, Excel has workarounds
Formulas are vital components in Excel. While working with formulas in Excel, results are shown instead of the formulas; therefore, it is difficult to track your data. In addition, one cannot easily differentiate the formula results and the sources of the results. However, Microsoft Excel allows users to show or hide the formulas in the
Formulas are vital tools in Excel. They are used to manipulate cells and perform other essential tasks in Excel. Did you know you can lock Cell (s) that contains formulas? Excel allows its users to lock the cells that contain the formulas. This post will discuss common ways to lock formula cells in Excel. To
PMT function is an in-built function used to compute the loan payment based on the fixed interest rates and constant payments. Firms or individual who deal with loans mostly uses the function. Therefore, learning how to use this function in Excel is beneficial. In this article, we shall discuss various workarounds and related methods. PMT
The compound Annual Growth Rate is an investment's mean annual growth rate over a given period. Excel has eased the process of computing CAGR. It is expressed in annual percentage terms. However, there is no direct function of computing CAGR in excel. But instead, several ways and workarounds can be used to compute the CAGR.
A cell address can be referred to as a column letter and a row number that identifies a cell on a worksheet. Lookup Formulas in Excel to find the matching value or corresponding value in the same row or column. However, one might need to return to the cell address of the value, especially when
A correlation coefficient shows the relationship between two variables; the value should lie between -1 and 1. It simply shows how much an independent variable explains a dependent variable. Fortunately, you can now quickly calculate correlation co-efficient on an Excel worksheet using the following methods. Method 1: Use the CORREL Function Assume you have two
The comparison involves checking if one list matches the other. Excel is a powerful tool for checking if one column matches the data in the other column. This is because excel consists of cells that are arranged in columns. Therefore, few workarounds and formulas can be used to check the comparison between two or more