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How to Use the Excel Match Function to Find Data
In Excel, some functions exist to be used to increase functionality when paired with other functions. MATCH is a good example. MATCH helps you search a range of references to find a “match” to your query. It then returns the position of that match. In short, you can use MATCH…
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Unleashing the Flexibility of Excel Text Formulas
Data collection is an important part of business. It is customer satisfaction survey results, employee performance assessments, market and industry research, lead generation analysis, or anything that depends on collecting, comparing and seeking relevant information. Unfortunately, depending on the setup and your tools, raw data can be confusing and impossible…
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Calculate Range in Excel: 3 Easy Formulas
An essential skill any Excel user should know is how to determine the range of values in Excel. Most businesses don't have time to waste sorting through rows and rows in Excel in order to find the highest and lowest values of revenue, sales, or other information. The difference between…
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Compound Annual Growth Rate: Comparing Investments with the Excel CAGR Formula
Does your company offer several types of IRA accounts? Are you unsure of your current IRA strategy? How do you know if the choices you make for your future are the best available to you? Say you review your IRA returns and consider changing your mix of investments. Five years…
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Simple and Foolproof Customer Service Employee Engagement Analysis
Employee engagement is a big-time buzzword right now. Statistics show how important it is for employees to be engaged. They also show how much productivity, profitability and customer satisfaction boom when engagement is high and bust when it’s low. Experts, surveys, calculators and apps in hand, are ready to tell…
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Six Steps to Pumping Up Your Customer Service Team
Customers. Depending on the kind of day you’re having, that word can either bring a smile to your face and a song to your lips or send you scuttling under your desk to whimper and rock back and forth muttering incoherently about someone named “Angry Edith” and her profane cockatoo,…
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Three Ways Technology Boosts Customer Satisfaction
There’s a tendency to think of customer service as a people-centric service – and rightly so. Our customers are people, and customers like human interaction. Customers even often prefer in-person or over-the phone conversations with a real person to resolve customer service issues1. That does not mean, though, that technology…
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Excel Lookup Formula to Create Combined Tables
Lookup functions (VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP) are among the most useful Excel functions to pull data from multiple column-/row-sorted lists into a unified table. Think of it this way, these functions ask a simple question and return the answer. Question: is the data from a specific cell reference in this column…
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Excel Formula Not Calculating?
As committed Excel users, we often go on and on about it as a productivity solution and essential program powerhouse. But catch us on a bad day and we are cursing that little green arrow and #VALUE! error like nobody’s business! Have you ever poured time into a worksheet, only…
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How to Make a Pareto Chart in Excel
The Pareto Principle, named for Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, suggests that 80% of problems can be traced to as few as 20% of root causes. This can be valuable, even vital information when you are trying to figure out which of many problems to tackle first, or in a complicated…
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