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Yes, you can create a loan repayment schedule with a grace period using Excel. Here are the steps:

Open a new Excel spreadsheet and create the following columns: Payment Date, Payment Amount, Interest Payment, Principal Payment, Balance.
Enter the loan amount in the Balance column.
Enter the interest rate in a cell and divide it by 12 to get the monthly interest rate. For example, if the interest rate is 4%, the monthly interest rate would be 0.00333.
Calculate the interest payment for the first two years by multiplying the monthly interest rate by the loan balance. Enter this amount in the Interest Payment column for the first 24 months.
Calculate the principal payment for the first two years by subtracting the interest payment from the monthly payment. Since there is no principal payment during the grace period, enter 0 in the Principal Payment column for the first 24 months.
Calculate the monthly payment using the
Code:
```
PMT
```
function. The formula would be
Code:
```
=PMT(monthly interest rate, number of payments, loan amount)
```
. For example, if the loan amount is $100,000, the monthly interest rate is 0.00333, and the number of payments is 120 (10 years), the formula would be
Code:
```
=PMT(0.00333, 120, 100000)
```
. This will give you the monthly payment amount.
Calculate the principal payment for each month after the grace period by subtracting the interest payment from the monthly payment. Enter this amount in the Principal Payment column for each month after the grace period.
Calculate the balance for each month by subtracting the principal payment from the previous month's balance. Enter this amount in the Balance column for each month.
Copy the formulas in the Interest Payment, Principal Payment, and Balance columns for the entire repayment period.
Format the Payment Date column as a date.
You now have a loan repayment schedule with a grace period. You can change the variables (number of years, interest rate, grace period) to see how they affect the repayment schedule.