Essential Excel formulas to improve office productivity
difference between formulas & functions?
below we express difference between formula and functions of Excel.
- Formulas.
its expressions that you can use to calculate the value of cells. for the example below – you can add together cells by writing out the
formula seen here, =A1+A2+A3.
Basic Functions
SUM
If you need to sum a column or row of numbers, let Excel do the math for you. steps to sum, click AutoSum on the Home tab, press Enter, and you're done. When you click AutoSum, Excel automatically enters a formula (that uses the SUM function) to sum the numbers.MAX :- will return the largest value in a given list of arguments.
MIN:- will return the smallest value in a given list of arguments.
AVERAGE:- will return the Average value in a given list of arguments.
Count:- it will Count select no. of cells
Text Function :- Change format of Text Like Upper Lower
CONCATENATE:- join text
LEFT:- separate letters from left side
RIGHT :-separate letters from RIGHT side
LOWER:- convert cell text into small letters
UPPER:-convert cell text into CAPITAL letters
MID:-Separate Middle characters
TRIM:- remove unwanted space
DATE & TIME:- used for formatting date and time
HOUR:- separate hour from given time
MINUTE:-separate minute from given time
SECOND:-separate second from given time
DATE:- combine/join date separated by year month and day
DAY:- separate day from given date
MONTH:- separate month from given date
YEAR:- separate year from given dateNOW:- latest date with time
TODAY:- latest date
Logincal Function
SIMPLE IF :- will give true or false based statements
IF with AND :- check whether all conditions are true
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