Microsoft Excel manipulates data — that’s its purpose in a nutshell. Consequently, there are numerous ways to perform math operations, including multiplication. You can multiply literal values ...

(You can lock cells in Excel to protect the contents, useful if the cells in question display the result of a formula.) How to multiply ranges of numbers via the Product function You can also ...

To multiply two numbers in Excel, you can type the formula =number1*number2 in a cell and hit Enter. Alternatively, you can multiply the contents of two cells A1 and B1 with the formula =A1*B1.

Multiply the numbers Now, if the numbers are in A1 and A2, then the formula should look like the following: =A1*A2 Bear in mind you will want to add the formula in a different cell. For example ...