How to Calculate How Much You Can Borrow Using Excel. How much you can borrow is often determined by the bank based on internal qualifiers, such as credit score, debt-to-income ratio, interest ...

A straight ranking result is easy using one of Microsoft Excel’s ranking functions. Calculating a conditional rank is even easier if you let an Excel PivotTable do all the work.

At the sheet level, conditional running totals require focused expressions, but an Excel PivotTable requires only a few field swaps. Susan Harkins shows you how.