How to Set Up an Ordinal Variable in Excel. An ordinal variable is a number that shows the position of an object within a series of objects with the use of a suffix, for example, "1st" or "453rd ...

How to Use Variables in Excel. Knowing how to use Excel's variables gives you the ability to make your formulas – and by extension the spreadsheets containing those formulas – much easier to ...

Excel can solve for unknown variables, either for a single cell with Goal Seek or multiple cells with Solver.