Calculating Weighted Average in Excel (Using Formulas)

When we calculate a simple average of a given set of values, the assumption is that all the values carry an equal weight or importance. For example, if you appear for exams and all the exams carry a similar weight, then the average of your total marks would also be the weighted average of your …

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How to Combine Cells in Excel

A lot of times, we need to work with text data in Excel. It could be Names, Address, Email ids, or other kinds of text strings. Often, there is a need to combine cells in Excel that contain the text data. Your data could be in adjacent cells (rows/columns), or it could be far off …

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How to Extract a Substring in Excel (Using TEXT Formulas)

Excel has a set of TEXT Functions that can do wonders. You can do all kinds of text slice and dice operations using these functions. One of the common tasks for people working with text data is to extract a substring in Excel (i.e., get psrt of the text from a cell). Unfortunately, there is …

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Remove Extra Spaces in Excel (Leading, Trailing, Double Spaces)

Leading and trailing spaces in Excel often leads to a lot of frustration. I can’t think of a situation where you may need these extra spaces, but it often finds its way into the excel spreadsheets. There are many ways you can end up with these extra spaces – for example, as a part of …

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How to Use Multiple Criteria in Excel COUNTIF and COUNTIFS Function

Excel has many functions where a user needs to specify a single or multiple criteria to get the result. For example, if you want to count cells based on multiple criteria, you can use the COUNTIF or COUNTIFS functions in Excel. This tutorial covers various ways of using a single or multiple criteria in COUNTIF …

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How to Count Colored Cells in Excel?

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a function that could count colored cells in Excel? Sadly, there isn’t any inbuilt function to do this. BUT.. It can easily be done. How to Count Colored Cells in Excel In this tutorial, I will show you three ways to count colored cells in Excel (with and without …

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How to Count Cells that Contain Text Strings

Counting is one of the most common tasks people do in Excel. It’s one of the metric that is often used to summarize the data. For example, count sales done by Bob, or sales more than 500K or quantity of Product X sold. Excel has a variety of count functions, and in most cases, these …

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Shared Expense Calculator – Download Free Excel Template

Shared Expense Calculator - Expense Summary

Four years ago, I was sharing an apartment with 3 of my friends. At the end of every month, we would sit together, jog our memory to remember expense details, and use a calculator to get each person’s share. And we used to get it wrong every time. Today I am here with a Shared …

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