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Have you ever felt like Excel was holding back its true potential? While most of us rely on its familiar features to crunch numbers and organize data, there’s a hidden layer of functionality that ...

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The PMT function is an Excel Financial function that returns the periodic payment for an annuity. The formula for the PMT function is PMT(rate,nper,pv, [fv], [type]). The NPV function returns the net ...

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...