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  <title>SheetRoutine</title>
  <subtitle>Excel and Google Sheets tutorials that end with a working spreadsheet. Every formula is recalculated and checked, and the file is attached.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-11-11T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
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    <title>Track a monthly budget in Excel with SUMIFS</title>
    <link href="https://sheetroutine.com/guides/monthly-budget-tracker/"/>
    <id>https://sheetroutine.com/guides/monthly-budget-tracker/</id>
    <updated>2026-11-11T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <summary>Eight planned categories and a 20-row expense log. SUMIFS adds up what was actually spent; Groceries is the one category over budget, by $37.15. Total spent $2,782.69 of $3,005.00 planned.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Count working days between two dates in Excel with NETWORKDAYS</title>
    <link href="https://sheetroutine.com/guides/working-days-between-dates/"/>
    <id>https://sheetroutine.com/guides/working-days-between-dates/</id>
    <updated>2026-11-11T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <summary>A November project, 2 to 30 November 2026: 21 working days, 19 once two holidays are excluded. Calendar days, weekend days and days left are all checked against an independent computation.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Clean messy names in Excel with TRIM, CLEAN and PROPER</title>
    <link href="https://sheetroutine.com/guides/clean-messy-text-data/"/>
    <id>https://sheetroutine.com/guides/clean-messy-text-data/</id>
    <updated>2026-11-11T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <summary>Seven names as imported. One formula cleans five; a longer formula catches the line break and the non-breaking space the short one misses. UNICHAR returns #NAME? in LibreOffice 24.2.7.2, so the file uses CHAR.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Summarise sales by category in Excel with SUMIFS, COUNTIFS and AVERAGEIFS</title>
    <link href="https://sheetroutine.com/guides/sales-summary-by-category/"/>
    <id>https://sheetroutine.com/guides/sales-summary-by-category/</id>
    <updated>2026-11-11T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <summary>Eighteen sales rows across three categories and two regions. Tools: 8 orders, $556.16; all categories: 18 orders, $1,449.46. A category with no sales shows “No sales” instead of #DIV/0!.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>SheetRoutine launches: two checked spreadsheet tutorials, files included</title>
    <link href="https://sheetroutine.com/guides/loan-amortization-schedule/"/>
    <id>https://sheetroutine.com/guides/loan-amortization-schedule/</id>
    <updated>2026-11-10T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <summary>A loan amortization schedule in Excel with PMT, IPMT and PPMT, and a price lookup with INDEX and MATCH. Both workbooks were recalculated in LibreOffice 24.2.7.2 and compared against independent computations; both files are attached.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Build a loan amortization schedule in Excel with PMT, IPMT and PPMT</title>
    <link href="https://sheetroutine.com/guides/loan-amortization-schedule/"/>
    <id>https://sheetroutine.com/guides/loan-amortization-schedule/</id>
    <updated>2026-11-10T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <summary>A $25,000 loan at 6.5% over 5 years. Monthly payment $489.15, total interest $4,349.22, final balance $0.00. All 60 rows match an independent Python computation within $0.01.</summary>
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  <entry>
    <title>Look up a price in Excel with INDEX and MATCH</title>
    <link href="https://sheetroutine.com/guides/price-lookup/"/>
    <id>https://sheetroutine.com/guides/price-lookup/</id>
    <updated>2026-11-10T00:00:00-07:00</updated>
    <summary>A price list with the SKU between the product name and the price, so VLOOKUP cannot reach left. HD-104 returns $21.50; a missing SKU returns “Not in price list”. XLOOKUP is shown for Excel 365/2021+ and Google Sheets, and measured as unsupported in LibreOffice 24.2.7.2.</summary>
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