Excel’s Date & Time functions ease the workload for bookkeepers, project planners, HR departments, and other jobs where time is money. The four functions covered here—ISOWEEKNUM, WEEKNUM, WORKDAY, ...

Excel provides three functions for generating random values: RAND(), RANDARRAY(), and RANDBETWEEN(), but there’s no comparable function for generating random letters. The truth is, most of won’t need ...

Last week I explained how Excel uses its own, unique system of serial numbers to calculate dates and times. That piece covered nine Date & Time functions: NETWORKDAYS(), DATEVALUE(), NOW(), DAY(), ...

Whether you are generating lottery numbers or sample data for a survey, random numbers are easy to create in Excel. While true randomness is difficult to simulate with software, Excelâ s random ...

Randomly selected samples from a larger population prevent bias in statistical procedures while avoiding the hassle of dealing with the entire dataset. If you have a list of entries to pick from in ...

How to generate random numbers with no duplicates in Excel Your email has been sent Over the last few months, I’ve written about several of Excel’s new dynamic array functions. They’re powerful and ...

Random number generation is an essential feature in Excel, allowing users to perform tasks such as simulations, creating test datasets, or experimenting with spreadsheet models. Excel provides three ...