Sometimes the dollar sign in Microsoft Excel is just a dollar sign, used to indicate that a number reported by a business or in someone's personal finances is in U.S. currency. But the dollar sign in ...

Another example: If you have cells named SubTotal and Tax, and type a formula =subtotal*tax Excel converts that to =SubTotal*Tax automatically. Because of this and because Excel puts functions in all ...

Cells in Excel are referred to using relative or absolute references. A formula with relative references changes when the cell's position does. If, for example, a cell has a formula "=A1" and you copy ...