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 understand. For example, the ...

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." ...

Excel can solve for unknown variables, either for a single cell with Goal Seek or multiple cells with Solver. ... For this example, we'll be using a very simple set of numbers.