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How to Link with Excel Hyperlink Formula
When using Excel, do you ever need to quickly access information stored elsewhere-- the internet or your company's intranet, for example? Taking the time to find these files outside of Excel can waste valuable time, especially if you get lost navigating away from your spreadsheet and forget the information’s context…
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Want to Boost Productivity? Have Employees Read a Book!
Would you like to boost employee confidence? Improve empathy? How about encouraging curiosity and critical thinking across all levels of your organization? What if, in doing so, you could also foster a new sense of community and engagement? Now, imagine if I told you all you needed to do was…
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Six Word Selfie
Selfies. Even the word can come off as self-centered. Barely discernable landmarks, oblivious celebrities and current events blur behind odd faces, cocked heads and flashy grins. The word was, for better or worse, added to our lexicon this year, though it’s not always well understood (John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight…
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Seven Lessons from Fiction
You can read my mind. It’s true. Watch: Imagine a desk, cluttered, lit by the hazy glow of a computer monitor and an overhead fluorescent fixture. A slate gray phone barely peeks out from beneath a cascade of file folders and papers. On top of the precarious stack sits a…
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Calculating Time with Excel Formulas
How often have you looked at your watch and typed the current time into your worksheet? Or tried to convert from one time zone to another and produced an error? Or wondered why a time shows up looking like “0.9285”? Fortunately, these questions are easy to answer once you understand…
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How to Use the Excel Match Function to Find Data
In Excel, some functions exist to be used to increase functionality when paired with other functions. MATCH is a good example. MATCH helps you search a range of references to find a “match” to your query. It then returns the position of that match. In short, you can use MATCH…
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Unleashing the Flexibility of Excel Text Formulas
Data collection is an important part of business. It is customer satisfaction survey results, employee performance assessments, market and industry research, lead generation analysis, or anything that depends on collecting, comparing and seeking relevant information. Unfortunately, depending on the setup and your tools, raw data can be confusing and impossible…
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Calculate Range in Excel: 3 Easy Formulas
An essential skill any Excel user should know is how to determine the range of values in Excel. Most businesses don't have time to waste sorting through rows and rows in Excel in order to find the highest and lowest values of revenue, sales, or other information. The difference between…
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Compound Annual Growth Rate: Comparing Investments with the Excel CAGR Formula
Does your company offer several types of IRA accounts? Are you unsure of your current IRA strategy? How do you know if the choices you make for your future are the best available to you? Say you review your IRA returns and consider changing your mix of investments. Five years…
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Simple and Foolproof Customer Service Employee Engagement Analysis
Employee engagement is a big-time buzzword right now. Statistics show how important it is for employees to be engaged. They also show how much productivity, profitability and customer satisfaction boom when engagement is high and bust when it’s low. Experts, surveys, calculators and apps in hand, are ready to tell…
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