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How to Use Microsoft Excel to Calculate Salary

For small businesses who do not want to pay an outside service for payroll the first port of call is usually Microsoft Excel. Standard office type employees are pretty simple to keep track of, but what if your employees have overtime and other work structures? How do you calculate the correct pay?
Let’s take a look!
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Protected: Excel Formula Tips Worth Using after Today

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Protected: How to Increase your Creativity in Excel…

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Protected: How to Learn New Excel Formulas

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Protected: 4 Things I Love About Presenting Data Using Lookup Formulas

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Protected: 7 Excel Skills you MUST have!

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Stop Wasting your Time Trying to Do Tasks that VLOOKUP Exact Match doesn’t Support

VLOOKUP is a great tool, but if you have used it for your daily reporting purposes you may have notice some shortcomings…

VLOOKUP 0 searches on a left index column. Why left? Database tables have the key column on the left so I assume they consider this in the design. (INDEX and MATCH allow you to [...]

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Excel Report – 4 Proven Tactics to Keep your Index Column Ready for a Lookup

Here you will be presented with popular and handy ways to avoid a sure crash of your lookup formula. You will learn how to keep your index column ready to be pulled by any lookup formula: VLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH, SUMPRODUCT…
1) Delete duplicates. Remember that a lookup formula returns the first instance of your lookup_value. [...]

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Excel Report – Do You Make this Mistake when Writing Lookup Formulas?

One of the errors I have committed again and again when writing lookup formulas, is forgetting to set the reference of the arrays to absolute.
For example: I write the formula VLOOKUP(A2,A2:D11,1,0) instead of this one VLOOKUP(A2″,$A$2:$D$11,1,0)
Here’s a brief and recurrent story…
I finished the formula, I tested and it worked. Then, after I copied and pasted [...]

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Excel Report – 7 Secrets Revealed

Excel reporting with lookup formulas is really an art, these tactics I have used will help you to focus your knowledge search and to speed your report building.
I adopted some principles from my boss, then I added my own tactics.
Here you have them…

Place your lookup table in a separate sheet. This way you keep your [...]

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