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Excel Shortcut Keys

Excel Shortcut Keys Excel shortcut keys come in handy to maneuver through Excel much faster and more efficiently. In fact, using shortcut keys is much quicker than using a mouse. What are Navigational Shortcut Keys? Navigational shortcut keys help the user move around within Excel. These shortcut keys allow the user to move across cells…

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Excel Shortcuts Overview

Why Use Excel Shortcuts? An often-overlooked method of increasing productivity when working in an Excel model is to use Excel shortcuts, or shortcut keys. These shortcut keys perform major functions that, when used instead of clicking in the toolbar, dramatically increase efficiency and speed. Imagine simply pressing two or three keys on the keyboard as…

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IF Statement Between Two Numbers

How to Combine IF with AND functions In Excel, you can combine IF with AND functions to return a value based on two different numbers. It can be very useful when performing financial modeling and when you are creating conditional situations. In this article, learn how to build an IF statement between two numbers so you…

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Sales Tax Decalculator

What is a Sales Tax Decalculator? A sales tax decalculator will tell you the pre-tax price of a good or service when the total price and tax rate are known. You can download our free Excel template to determine the pre-tax price. How the Sales Tax Decalculator Works The Excel sales tax decalculator works by…

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Excel ROUNDDOWN

What is the Excel ROUNDDOWN Function? When performing financial analysis in Excel, it’s often useful to round down a number to either a decimal place or a whole number. Thankfully, with the Excel ROUNDDOWN Function, this task is quite easy, even for a large dataset. In this tutorial, we will show you how to round…

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VBA Macros

What are VBA Macros in Excel? VBA Macros use the Visual Basic Application in Excel to create custom user-generated functions and speed up manual tasks by creating automated processes.  Additionally, VBA can be used to access the Windows Application Programming Interface (API).  One of its main uses is to change and customize the user interface…

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Excel Convert Formula To Value

Convert Formulas to Values in Excel There are three shortcuts you can use to convert formulas to values in Excel. This article on “Excel Convert Formula To Value” gives a step by step breakdown of each. The first option, using Shift + F10 requires the fewest keystrokes; the second, Alt + E + S is…

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NOW Function in Excel

NOW Function in Excel The NOW Function in Excel is a formula that displays the current date and time.  It is automatically refreshed anytime the workbook is opened or a change is made.  It can also be manually refreshed by pressing F9.  To learn more, launch our free Excel crash course now! Formula for the…

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Vertex42® Excel Templates

What is Vertex42®? Vertex42® is a website that provides a wide range of high-quality Excel templates that are useful for any financial analyst. Excel templates range from debt repayment schedules to printable calendars to budgets and financial calculators. These templates can be especially useful when performing financial modeling in Excel, and we encourage you to…

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Excel Formulas Cheat Sheet

Excel Formulas Cheat Sheet If you want to become a master of Excel financial analysis and an expert on building financial models then you’ve come to the right place.  We’ve built an Excel formulas cheat sheet of the most important formulas and functions required to become a spreadsheet power user. Below is a written overview of the…

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