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How to Rank numbers ten different ways in Microsoft Excel

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New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 337th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to rank numbers in Excel using 10 different methods:

1. Rank smallest to biggest (Ascending)

2. Rank biggest to smallest (Descending)

3. Ties given same number (e.g., Aecond rank is 2, 2, 2 for three scores of 10, and next rank is 5)

4. Ties given same number (e.g., Second rank is 3, 3, 3 for three scores of 10 ((2+3+4)/3 = 3) , and next rank is 5)

5. Ties given same number (e.g., Second rank is 2, 2, 2 for three scores of 10, and next rank is 3)

6. Ties given different numbers (e.g., second rank is 2, 3, 4 for three scores of 10, and next rank is 5)

And more!

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