Learn how to calculate the discount rate in Microsoft Excel, what the discount factor is, and how the discount rate and discount factor compare.

Save this for the spreadsheet jocks in your office—we'd bet even the experts don't know all of these formula tips.

Q. When I’m working in Excel, I sometimes have trouble remembering a formula. Is there an instant crib sheet I can refer to? I know I can look it up in Help , but that’s such a slow process. A. Yes, ...

After you've assembled all your financial data and created a worksheet to contain your income in one column and your expenses in another, you can use Excel's "SUM" function to create a formula to ...

Sometimes you just want to tell Excel what it is you want your formula to do. It'd be a lot easier if you could just say "sort this data in ascending order and find its average" i ...