For the most part, you're probably accustomed to using Microsoft Excel for tasks such as preparing reports, forecasts, and budgets. However, Excel is much more powerful than that. It can be used to ...

While Microsoft Excel is widely recognized for its spreadsheet functionality and calculation capabilities, it’s often overlooked as a powerful tool for managing small to medium-sized datasets. When ...

Averaging isn’t always a simple total divided by the number of items totaled. Fortunately, Microsoft Excel offers several averaging functions, and one of them will probably get the job done. In this ...

Inserting a pivot table in a sheet in Excel 2013. Image: Screenshot by Susan Harkins/TechRepublic When is the last time you opened Microsoft Excel to do some data science? If it's been a while, you're ...

In today’s data-driven world, the exponential growth of unstructured data is a phenomenon that demands our attention. The rise of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) has added even more ...

Microsoft Excel doesn't have the ability to generate a derivative equation from a given formula, but you can still use the program to calculate values for both a formula and its derivative and plot ...

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