Excel Division Formula

If you want to divide one number by another the symbol to use is this one:

/

That's the forward slash, and can be found just to the right of the full stop on your keyboard. You use it like this:

= A1 / C1

There are a number of times when you would want to divide, but wouldn't need the divider symbol at all. For example, you use division to calculate Averages, but you wouldn't need the divider symbol here because Excel has a separate Average function. Likewise, if you wanted to calculate monthly payments, you wouldn't need to use the divider symbol because Excel had quite a number of financial functions you can use. (We'll meet some of these later in the course.)