Have you ever found yourself frustrated by Excel’s inability to handle ties in rankings without creating gaps in the sequence? Imagine analyzing employee salaries or sales performance, only to ...

As a child of the dark ages, I used the word rank to describe something that smelled rotten or suspicious. Rank in Microsoft Excel is, thankfully, totally different. In Excel, rank is a value that ...

Microsoft Excel's UNIQUE function does exactly as its name suggests—it extracts unique values from an array. In other words, you'll only see each value once in the result, even if it appears multiple ...

One of the most common requests I receive from users is how to identify duplicate and unique values in Microsoft Excel. The easiest way I know is to apply a conditional format. In a nutshell, a ...