An Excel spreadsheet can become an indispensable tool for your business when you harness its power for keeping records and doing computations. Take advantage of the program's seemingly limitless ...

A TechRepublic member wrote for advice on calculating the years, months, and days elapsed between two dates. This tutorial explains the solution provided by TechRepublic contributor Jeff Davis. A ...

If you need to calculate dates in your spreadsheets, Excel uses its own unique system, which it calls Serial Numbers. Every date (month, day, year) and time (hour, minute, and second) has an ...

Whenever you change something on a Microsoft Excel 2010 spreadsheet, the program will recalculate some of the cells in the worksheet, even some of those that did not change. Normally, Excel operates ...

Enable the Auto-Calculate option. Disable Show Formula option. Check the cell format. Check if the formula is entered correctly. Check for Circular References in the spreadsheet. If the spreadsheet ...

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