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 ...

There are two ways to calculate a conditional average in Excel, both involve some logic and some special functions. Excel’s SUMIF() and COUNTIF() are two of my favorite summarizing functions and we’ve ...

This post explains how to calculate Weighted Average in Excel with percentages. In a standard arithmetic average where the sum of values is divided by the number of values, each data value is treated ...

SUMIF, SUMIFS, AVERAGEIFS, and COUNTIFS are commonly used accounting functions in Microsoft Excel. These formulas are used to calculate cell values based on the criteria you have described or ...

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a growing dataset in Excel, wondering how to make sense of the numbers without spending hours manually updating formulas? Whether you’re tracking monthly sales, ...