The benefit of a last-to-first lookup is that you can find the most recent occurrence of a value in a lookup array that is listed in date order. To achieve this with VLOOKUP, you would have to reverse ...

The lookup function in Excel can save you a lot of time and effort, but only if you actually know how to use its many forms and alterations.

I’m using Excel 2016 on a Windows 10 64-bit system, but you can use these three solutions in older versions. For your convenience, you can download the demonstration .xls and .xlsx files .

So Excel is taking its default value which is False. Now enter the following formula in cell B1: =TEXTSPLIT(A1,".",,TRUE) As you can see, the empty cell has now been removed, since ignore_empty is ...

Unfortunately, there’s no built-in validation rule that recognizes a duplicate value, so you’ll need to combine the feature with Excel’s COUNTIF() function.

Learn what Value at Risk is, what it indicates about a portfolio, its pros and cons, and how to calculate the VaR of a portfolio using Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft Excel can perform statistical calculations across a wide set of data. Performing a T-Value Formula is simple so long as each column is set up correctly to accept the mean and standard ...