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Exploring Microsoft Excel's Hidden Treasures
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Data Tables allow you to swap one or more inputs through a formula to return an array of results. I’m going to walk you through three different variations for calculating loan payments:
The common factor between all three is that we’ll start by calculating a loan payment in the fashion that I described in the PMT function. The PMT function will anchor all three of the Data Tables that we’ll work through.
Cells D2:D4 of the Data Table-One Input worksheet in this chapter’s example workbook are the inputs used by the =-PMT(D2/12,D3*12,D4) formula in cell D6, which returns $2,176.03 as the payment amount for a 30-year loan of $500,000 with a 3.25% interest rate. Let’s say that interest...