As is, it’s hard to determine how Excel sorted the names and amounts. Note the order of the fields in the Rows list (in the PivotTable Fields pane). This will come up again later.

A straight ranking result is easy using one of Microsoft Excel’s ranking functions. Calculating a conditional rank is even easier if you let an Excel PivotTable do all the work.

Once your pivot table is established, summarizing data becomes a straightforward process. Excel provides a range of options, such as sum, count, average, max, and min, to help you extract ...

Excel 2013 provides the DATE and XIRR functions, which derive the final annual interest rate from a series of payments on known dates.