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	<title>Experiments in Finance &#187; Excel function tutorials</title>
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		<title>How to use the COUNTIF and SUMIF functions in Excel &#8212; a quick introductory tutorial</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2010/01/04/how-to-use-the-countif-and-sumif-functions-in-excel-a-quick-introductory-tutorial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to continue building on my popular series on how to use IF statements and nested IF statements with &#8220;and, or, not&#8221; in Excel by discussing two additional and very useful functions called countif and sumif. Surprisingly, they&#8217;re not as widely used as you&#8217;d expect, and sometimes knowing which to use is a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to create a pivot table in Excel 2007 &#8211; Part I &#8211; a quick and basic intro</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2009/10/21/how-to-create-a-pivot-table-in-excel-2007-part-i-a-quick-and-basic-intro/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2009/10/21/how-to-create-a-pivot-table-in-excel-2007-part-i-a-quick-and-basic-intro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems like it&#8217;s been eons since I posted an Excel tutorial, so I thought I&#8217;d write a brief intro on how to create pivot tables in Excel. Pivot tables are unnecessarily mysterious and perplexing to many people, but as you&#8217;ll soon see, they&#8217;re easy to set up and a convenient way to look at spreadsheet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Excel&#8217;s built-in amortization table</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2009/07/27/using-excels-built-in-amortization-table/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2009/07/27/using-excels-built-in-amortization-table/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to our nascent house hunt, I&#8217;ve been trying to back into figures on mortgages and monthly payments. Luckily, Excel has a handy built-in amortization template just perfectly suited for this purpose. 
Here&#8217;s how you get to the template in Excel 2007 (which according to my recent poll is the version most readers use, if [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to make your Excel models look more professional &#8211; 3 quick tips</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2009/05/07/how-to-make-your-excel-models-look-more-professional-3-quick-tips/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2009/05/07/how-to-make-your-excel-models-look-more-professional-3-quick-tips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 13:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel spreadsheets (.xls)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of writing another long Excel function tutorial, I wanted to dedicate a quick post on how to make your Excel models look 100x better. No matter what version of Excel you&#8217;re using, there are three easy things you can do to make your tables and models easier on the eyes, easier to use, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: Which version of Microsoft Excel do you use?</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2009/05/02/poll-which-version-of-microsoft-excel-do-you-use/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2009/05/02/poll-which-version-of-microsoft-excel-do-you-use/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 06:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As you know, I regularly create Excel tutorials on this site. I&#8217;m trying to figure out what version of Excel most readers currently use so that I can write tutorials that benefit the most number of visitors. If you&#8217;re browsing Experiments in Finance because you came here by searching Google for an explanation on how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THIS is why I post boring Excel tutorials :)</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2008/10/26/this-is-why-i-post-boring-excel-tutorials/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2008/10/26/this-is-why-i-post-boring-excel-tutorials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I received the following email today:


Hello Ricemutt
My name is John D. [name edited to protect privacy] and I am a tutor in the School of Engineering and Computing at Blackpool &#038; Fylde College in England. I found one of your tutorials on the internet and find it to be superior to the material I currently [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to create drop-down lists in Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2008/05/19/how-to-create-drop-down-lists-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2008/05/19/how-to-create-drop-down-lists-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 13:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was helping a reader with an Excel-based tool for his business that involved some vlookups for which using a drop-down list in Excel proved useful. 
Drop-down lists in Excel are much like the ones you often see on web-based forms, where you can choose only from a fixed list of choices. The reason [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to use VLOOKUP in Excel (part II) &#8211; some tips and advanced Excel tricks</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/12/27/how-to-use-vlookup-in-excel-part-ii-some-tips-and-advanced-excel-tricks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/12/27/how-to-use-vlookup-in-excel-part-ii-some-tips-and-advanced-excel-tricks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I wrote a short and simple example of how to use the VLOOKUP function in Excel and promised to follow up with a second part. 
In this post, we&#8217;ll look at a slightly more complicated example and show a couple of tips and tricks for making VLOOKUP work correctly. 
By the way, I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>59</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to use VLOOKUP in Excel &#8211; a simple tutorial (part I)</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/11/19/how-to-use-vlookup-in-excel-a-simple-tutorial-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/11/19/how-to-use-vlookup-in-excel-a-simple-tutorial-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you use Excel much at your job, sooner or later, you&#8217;re bound to need to look up values in a table. One of the most useful functions in Excel, called vlookup, does exactly that. The &#8220;V&#8221; in vlookup stands for &#8220;vertical&#8221; and &#8220;lookup&#8221; is pretty self explanatory. This function allows you to look up [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>93</slash:comments>
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		<title>Excel tutorials: data used in examples have been added</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/01/28/excel-tutorials-data-used-in-examples-have-been-added/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2007/01/28/excel-tutorials-data-used-in-examples-have-been-added/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I received some very useful feedback from a reader who suggested that I make the data used in the examples in my Excel tutorials available for users to copy into a spreadsheet so they can work through the examples practically. 
So, I&#8217;ve added a table containing the data used in each tutorial at the beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Using Excel&#8217;s conditional formatting: changing colors and fonts to highlight data</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/12/12/using-excels-conditional-formatting-changing-colors-and-fonts-to-highlight-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/12/12/using-excels-conditional-formatting-changing-colors-and-fonts-to-highlight-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to show one other thing helpful thing that Excel can do when you need to highlight data called conditional formatting. (Note: this tutorial is image heavy!)
Conditional formatting basically allows you to use colors, font styles, and borders to highlight cells that meet certain conditions. Unlike IF and other Excel functions, conditional formatting is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to use nested IF statements in Excel with AND, OR, NOT</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/12/11/how-to-use-nested-if-statements-in-excel-with-and-or-not/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/12/11/how-to-use-nested-if-statements-in-excel-with-and-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on last week&#8217;s introductory post on using the IF function, here&#8217;s one on how to use Excel&#8217;s IF statement when you have multiple conditions to meet.
The original question I received from a reader, which prompted this series, was about how to use the IF statement in Excel when you had two conditions that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>295</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to use the IF function in Excel</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/12/05/how-to-use-the-if-function-in-excel-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/12/05/how-to-use-the-if-function-in-excel-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, I received a question from a reader asking how to use the IF function in Excel for a particular scenario he needed to do at work. I thought other people might benefit from having a short tutorial on this, so I&#8217;m providing it here, divided into a few parts. 
The [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>Using the Goal Seek function in Excel: a brief tutorial</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/11/27/using-the-goal-seek-function-in-excel-a-brief-tutorial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/11/27/using-the-goal-seek-function-in-excel-a-brief-tutorial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Goal Seek is a really useful and easy function to use in Excel, but a surprising number of people aren&#8217;t aware of it. If you&#8217;re a regular spreadsheet user and have ever run into a situation where you wanted to figure out what number to &#8220;back into&#8221; to get a result you want, or you [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to use XIRR in Excel to calculate annualized returns</title>
		<link>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/10/17/how-to-use-xirr-in-excel-to-calculate-annualized-returns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experiglot.com/2006/10/17/how-to-use-xirr-in-excel-to-calculate-annualized-returns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel function tutorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve previously created a spreadsheet for calculating compound annual growth rates (CAGR) as well as an online CAGR calculator, but these aren&#8217;t always the tools you need when trying to calculate your returns.
In fact, the two CAGR tools I created really only work when you have one initial amount and one final amount, and if [...]]]></description>
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