Calculate Cumulative Principal & Interest

When you've got a loan or mortgage and you're the analytical type, maybe you'd want to know how much you're paying in principal and interest for a giving time period. For example for the first year, how much is that payment for the principal (hint: it's not much) and how much of the payment is interest going to the bank (it might surprise you). You can figure this out with Excel.

Find Value NOT Between a Range

Excel makes it easy to find values that are between a range; say numbers between 20 to 40. If you wanted to find value outside the range (i.e., 1-19 or 40 and above), Excel makes it equally as easy. I'll show two ways you can do this; one with filtering and the other with conditional formatting.

Pivot Table Calculated Item Solve Order Issue

If you've created multiple calculated items in a pivot table you might get into a situation where they are not showing up correctly. Somehow the calculations are wrong or don't look right for what you're trying to communicate. Often times it will be the way that the calculations are ordered that is creating the confusion. Re-arranging the sort order of the calculated items is then the solution. This video will cover what dialogue windows can be used to resolve the issue and also go through the steps of creating the pivot table with the "wrong" series of steps that lead up to the problem.