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90% of Excel spreadsheets contain errors: Here’s how to fix yours

Studies, including those by spreadsheet researcher Raymond Panko, estimate that up to 90% of all spreadsheets contain at ...
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Avoid These Common Mistakes with MS Excel’s Percent Of Function

Have you ever trusted a tool to simplify your work, only to discover it might be quietly leading you astray? That’s exactly the risk you run with Excel’s “Percent Of” function. On the surface, it ...
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Many businesses are hampered by Excel spreadsheet errors

37 percent of the people who spend more than half of their day working in Excel have never received any formal training. Office working looking at an Excel spreadsheet. Image by Tim Sandle Office ...
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One in Five Genetics Papers Have Errors Caused by Microsoft Excel

According to a study in the journal Genome Biology, around 20 percent of genetics papers, have errors that have been introduced by Microsoft Excel or similar spreadsheet programs. The researchers ...