Excel has a way to rank a series of values, showing which is top, middle and bottom. As usual, what appears to be a simple thing has extra features to cope with the real world like equal placings. Here’s a simple ranking. As you can see, Excel has ranked the Value entries from 1 to […]
Here’s a look at two things that you’d expect Excel to handle quickly and easily, but doesn’t. Showing a ranking of items with equal ranks shown (3rd equal etc) and ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc) or ordinal names (first, second, third etc). All are possible in Excel but strangely not provided by Microsoft directly. […]
If you’d like to be really clever with Rank/Rank.EQ in Excel, here’s how to show different words for joint rankings (only two with the same rank) or equal rankings by three or more. It’s a small difference but can make your reports or merged documents look a lot more professional. Use the Choose() function to […]
You can show ordinal numbers in Excel; 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Sadly, it’s not as simple as you’d think. The ‘Ordinal Rank’ column, 1st, 2nd etc you’d expect to be provided by Microsoft, but it’s not. There’s no in-built function nor a number format. After all, Excel has many different number formats already, so ordinal numbers […]
The work of Eric Gill is controversial these days, for good reason. Microsoft Windows and Office have fonts based on Gill’s work so users might need to think twice about using Gill Sans and similar fonts. Gill Sans MT and Gill Sans Nova are supplied with Windows and Office but are becoming stigmatized. Those fonts […]
