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Microsoft Excel allows users to produce a graph displaying the frequencies in a signal. The process is used for cellphone and wi-fi transmissions. Users must have the Data Analysis package added to their Microsoft Excel application.

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How To Do A Fast Fourier Transform

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How to do a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) in Microsoft Excel

By Laura Jean Holton, eHow Contributor updated October 06, 2011

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A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is the simplest way to distinguish the frequencies of a signal. The process is used for cellphone and Wi-Fi transmissions, compressing audio, image and video files, and for solving differential equations. Microsoft Excel allows users to produce a graph displaying the frequencies in a signal, but since the process involves the use of numerous algorithms for the complex mathematics, users must have the Data Analysis package added to their Microsoft Excel application.
Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

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Open Excel and create a new spreadsheet file. Add the title "Time" to the "A" column, followed by the titles "Data," "FFT Frequency," "FFT Complex" and "FFT Magnitude" to columns "B" to "E" respectively.

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Input the data from your samples into the "Data" column. Make a note of the number of data points and the sampling rate used.

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Write the time at which each data point was taken into the "Time" column. Determine this by dividing the total time by the amount of data points.

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Navigate to "Data/Data Analysis/Fourier Analysis." Set the input range as the information in the "Data" column and the output as the "FFT Complex" column.

Type the equation "=IMABS (E2)" into the first cell of the "FTT Magnitude" column. Drag the equation downwards to fill every cell of the column. This will create real numbers, instead of complex numbers, in the previous column.
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Fill column "F" with the corresponding data, from column "A," point minus one. Create a separate cell with the equation "=(S/2)/(N/2)," replacing "S" with the sampling rate and "N" with the number of samples.

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Enter the equation "=F2*SG$4" in the first cell of the "FTT Frequency" column. This time, drag the equation only to the halfway point in the column.

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Create a graph, using the "FTT Magnitude" column for the Y axis and the "FTT Frequency" column for the X axis. The graph will display the dominant frequencies as peaks.

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