Using NETWORKDAYS to calculate the number of business days between two dates in Excel
NETWORKDAYS (That’s Net Work Days, not Network Days) is a versatile spreadsheet function that lets you calculate working days between two dates, allowing for weekends, public holidays and more.
Creating Sunburst & TreeMap Charts in Excel 2016
Familiarise yourself with two of Excels fantastic new Chart Types – the Sunburst, and Treemap (collectively known as Hierarchical charts)
Using stacked images for your Excel Charts
Create colourful, engaging charts using stacked images in this comprehensive Excel walk through.
Creating Waterfall Charts in Excel 2016
Excel 2016 has given us a plethora of useful – and long overdue – chart types for us to work with. One of these, is the Waterfall Chart I‘ve written before about how to create a Waterfall Chart in Excel – it has long been one of the more challenging chart types to re-create, so
Using the IFS() and SWITCH() Functions to test for more than one condition in Excel 2016
Learn about 2 of the exciting new functions released as part of the Excel 2016 January update
Using Ranking Functions in Excel
Master the available options in Excel for ranking you data, including the updated Rank.Eq functions.
Pie Charts – how not to use them!
I originally posted this to my LinkedIn Profile, which you can find here, but thought I’d share it on here as well!
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Plenty has been said before about whether or not you should use Pie Charts to present your data.
A good article covering their main pitfalls can be found here;
and a slightly lighter take on them can be found here;
Yet, it was my own father who reminded me that Pie Charts can be put to good use, as was the case with Florence Nightingale. (Though, they were of the somewhat more useful Rose Diagram type than bog standard Pie chart, but I take the point!)
Having said that, I came across this little gem, on the BBC news website of all places, which really must be the single worst usage of Pie Charts I’ve ever come across
Add Labels to Outliers in Excel Scatter Charts
Scatter charts are a great way to present the relationship between two data points
In my example, I’m using a scatter charts to monitor student test results – I want to compare their latest test score against how that score has changed from their last test.
Using Excel to Calculate Repayments & Interest using PMT, IPMT & PPMT Functions
If you’re borrowing or saving money, and want to compare rates, perhaps perform some What If analysis, there are built in function in Excel which can quickly help you PMT() The main one is PMT() This function takes a value, a rate and a ‘number of periods’ value and gives you the repayment. There are also
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