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Excel can solve for unknown variables, either for a single cell with Goal Seek or multiple cells with Solver.

There are tough problems that every business faces, and they can slow things down, make budgets stretch, or put off decisions ...

Excel's MOD function doesn't have to be used to return a value—it can also be used to determine which cells should be formatted through conditional formatting.

If you need to reconcile batches of records in Microsoft Excel, this simple VLOOKUP() solution offers a quick and easy way to find records in one batch that are missing from another.