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The SCAN function is best used when you need a running total—a sum that accumulates row by row, with the accumulated value ...

The Microsoft Excel program includes a variety of mathematical formulas that you can apply to any cell in a spreadsheet. If your business uses an Excel file to track sales information, you can use the ...

You can't use a SUM() function to sum a filtered list, unless you intend to evaluate hidden and unhidden values. Here's how to sum only the values that meet your filter's criteria. Filters are a ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

We have created sample data containing sales of 6 different companies in four consecutive months (from January to April). The Total Sales sheet represents the total ...

Many CPAs, frustrated by rigid and inadequate reports from their general ledger or other enterprise systems, turn to Microsoft Excel. Nimble but powerful, Excel often manipulates data faster and more ...

When working with spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel, you might find yourself needing to add up business data from cells across multiple spreadsheets. It is possible to make the Sum Excel formula ...

Excel functions, or formulas, lie at the heart of the application’s deep well of capabilities. Today we’ll tackle IF statements, a string of commands that determine whether a condition is met or not.