Commercial off-the-shelf software such as Microsoft Excel lets you automate engineering functions (references 1 through 3). This Design Idea explains how you can use Excel to calculate the values of ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2001. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. Okay, so Excel is a ...

If you are using Microsoft Excel to manage numerical data, at some point you're inevitably going to display percentages. Doing so can give you a new insight, or make summarizing heaps of data a bit ...

If you pay employees an hourly wage and use time cards to track their weekly work time, you can use Microsoft Excel to calculate work totals, simplifying your payroll preparation. Especially when you ...

The T-Value is a common statistical calculation with a very wide range of applications. In the business world, it can help in making educated financial predictions and projections. For example, a ...

Microsoft Excel helps us to do simple and complex calculations easily. If there is a list of numbers, it is straightforward to find their SUM. But sometimes, we encounter a situation where the numbers ...

A TechRepublic member wrote for advice on calculating the years, months, and days elapsed between two dates. This tutorial explains the solution provided by TechRepublic contributor Jeff Davis. A ...

The median function in Excel can be categorized as a statistical function. It can be entered as part of a formula in a cell of a worksheet. The syntax of the MEDIAN ...

As a child of the dark ages, I used the word rank to describe something that smelled rotten or suspicious. Rank in Microsoft Excel is, thankfully, totally different. In Excel, rank is a value that ...

Using standard resistor values can greatly impact the accuracy and predictability of a circuit by eliminating rounding errors incurred at the end of the design. Selecting resistor values traditionally ...