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Text Functions: LEFT Function

The document describes various text, date, time, logical, math, statistical, and lookup functions in Excel. It provides details on 65 different functions, explaining what each one does and how it is used with examples for some functions. The functions covered include LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LOWER, UPPER, PROPER, REPT, LEN, FIND, SEARCH, DATE, DATEDIF, DATEVALUE, EDATE, DAY, DAYS, TODAY, MONTH, EOMONTH, YEAR, WEEKDAY, WEEKNUM, NETWORKDAYS, TIME, TIMEVALUE, HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND, NOW, IF, IFERROR, IFNA, OR, AND

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Text Functions: LEFT Function

The document describes various text, date, time, logical, math, statistical, and lookup functions in Excel. It provides details on 65 different functions, explaining what each one does and how it is used with examples for some functions. The functions covered include LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LOWER, UPPER, PROPER, REPT, LEN, FIND, SEARCH, DATE, DATEDIF, DATEVALUE, EDATE, DAY, DAYS, TODAY, MONTH, EOMONTH, YEAR, WEEKDAY, WEEKNUM, NETWORKDAYS, TIME, TIMEVALUE, HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND, NOW, IF, IFERROR, IFNA, OR, AND

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Text Functions

1. LEFT Function: It returns specified (by you) characters from the left side of a

text string. You can extract characters up to the total length of the text string.

2. RIGHT Function: It returns specified (by you) characters from the right side of

a text string. You can extract characters up to the total length of the text string.

3. MID Function: It returns specific characters from a specific position in the text
string. You can extract text up to the total length of the text string.

4. LOWER Function: It converts a normal text into a lower case text where you
have all the letters in small letters and numbers will be unchanged.

5. UPPER Function: It converts a normal text into an upper case text where you
have all the letters in capital letters and numbers will be unchanged.

6. PROPER Function: It converts a normal text into a proper case text where you
have the first letter of a word in capital letter and rests all in small and numbers
will be unchanged.

7. REPT Function: It repeats the text which you specify the number of times. You
just need to specify the text and the repetition number. Its biggest benefit is for
creating the in-cell chart.

8. LEN Function: It returns the number of total characters a text string has. You
can input a text string directly into the function or simply refer to a cell.

9. FIND Function: It helps to find the starting position of a text string (Case
Sensitive) from another text string. You just need to specify the text to find and
a text from which you want to find.
10. SEARCH Function: It helps to find the starting position of a text string (Non-
Case Sensitive) from another text string. You just need to specify the text to
find and a text from which you want to find.

Date Functions
11. DATE Function: It creates a valid date according to Excel's date format. You

need to provide day, month and year to create a date.

12. DATEDIF Function: It returns the difference between the start date and end

date. It has six different ways to show that difference.

13. DATEVALUE Function: It converts a text date into a valid date according to
Excel's date format. You can refer to a cell or you can also enter that text
directly into the function.

14. EDATE Function: It gives you a date which is a number of months before or
after a specified date. In simple words, you'll get the same date in future or
past month like the specific date.

15. DAY Function: It returns the day of the month ranging from 1-31 from the
date you specified.

16. DAYS Function: It returns the difference between two dates using four
different methods which you can specify.

17. TODAY Function: It gives you current date/today's date as per your system
settings. This is a volatile function which changes its values when you
recalculate your worksheet.

18. MONTH Function: It returns the month number ranging from 1-12 from the
date you specified.
19. EOMONTH Function: It gives you the last date of a month which is a number
of months before or after a specified date. In simple words, you'll get the last
date of a future month or past month.

20. YEAR Function: It returns the year number from the date you have specified
(It should be a valid date).

21. WEEKDAY Function: It returns the day number from the date you have
specified ranging from 1-7.

22. WEEKNUM Function: It returns the week number of a specific date. For
example, the week containing Jan 1 is the first week of the year and is
numbered week 1.

23. NETWORKDAYS Function: It returns the number of working days between the
start date and end date which exclude weekends and any dates identified in
holidays.

24. NETWORKDAYS.INTL Function: It returns the number of workdays between


the start date and end date which exclude weekends and any dates identified
and specified holidays.

Time Functions
25. TIME Function: If create a valid time according to Excel's time format. You

need to provide hour, minutes, and seconds.

26. TIMEVALUE Function: It converts a text time value into a valid time value

according to Excel's time format. You can refer to a cell or you can also enter

that text directly into the function.

27. HOUR Function: It returns the hour value (ignores minutes and seconds) from
a time value ranging from 0-23 hours.
28. MINUTE Function: It returns the minute value (ignores hour and seconds)
from a time value ranging from 0-59 minutes.

29. SECOND Function: It returns the seconds' value (ignores hours and minutes)
from a time value ranging from 0-59 seconds.

30. NOW Function: It gives you current date and time as per your system
settings. This is a volatile function which changes its values when you
recalculate your worksheet.

Logical Functions
31. IF Function: You can provide a condition to check and it returns a specific

value if that condition is TRUE and another value if that condition is FALSE.

32. IFERROR Function: It evaluates a value for an error and returns a specific

value if an error occurs.

33. IFNA Function: It evaluates a value for #N/A error and returns a specific

value if an error occurs.

34. OR Function: Test two or more conditions differently and return TRUE if any of

those conditions is TRUE and FALSE if all those conditions are FALSE.

35. AND Function: Test two or more conditions jointly and return TRUE if all of

those conditions is TRUE and FALSE if any of those conditions is FALSE.

36. NOT Function: It converts a TRUE into FALSE and FALSE into TRUE.

37. FALSE Function: It returns the logical value TRUE in the cell where you insert

it.

38. TRUE Function: It returns the logical value FALSE in the cell where you insert

it.

Maths Functions
39. SUM Function: It adds values. It can add individual values, cell references or

ranges or a mix of all three.

40. SUMIF Function: It returns the sum of the numeric values of which meet a

condition. You need to specify a condition and the range to check that condition.

41. SUMIFS Function: It returns the sum of the numeric values of which meet

multiple conditions. You need to specify conditions and range to check those

conditions.

42. SUMPRODUCT Function: It multiplies values from corresponding cells in the

given arrays, and returns the sum of those products. It can take an array

without using Ctrl + Shift + Enter.

43. ABS Function: It converts a number into an absolute number. The absolute

value of a number is the number without its sign.

44. EVEN Function: It returns a number by rounding it to the nearest even

number.

45. INT Function: It returns a number by rounding it to the nearest to the nearest

integer.

46. MOD Function: It returns remainder after dividing two numbers, not the result

of the division of two numbers.

47. MROUND Function: It rounds a number to the nearest multiple of a number

without considering that number is greater or lower than the original number.

48. TRUNC Function: It truncates a number to an integer by removing the

fractional part of the number. In simple word, it returns on integer part from a

value.

49. RAND Function: It returns an evenly distributed random real number greater

than or equal to 0 and less than 1. A new random real number is returned every

time the worksheet is calculated.


Statistical Functions
50. COUNT Function: It counts the number of cells which contain numbers, and

counts the numbers which are specified in the arguments.

51. COUNTA Function: It counts all the cells which are not empty. It doesn't

matter which type of value is there in a cell, it counts all the cell with values in

it.

52. COUNTBLANK Function: It counts all the cells which are empty/blank, but if a

cell has a blank space it will not count it.

53. COUNTIF Function: It counts the number of cells which meet a criterion. You

need to specify a criterion and a range of cell to check that criterion.

54. COUNTIFS Function: It counts the number of cells which meet criteria. You

need to specify criteria and ranges to check those criteria.

55. AVERAGE Function: It returns the average (arithmetic mean) of the

arguments. You can refer to a range of cells or insert numbers inside the

function.

56. AVERAGEA Function: It returns the average (arithmetic mean) of a group of

numbers and text. You can refer to a range of cells or insert numbers inside the

function.

57. AVERAGEIF Function: It averages the number of cells which meet a criterion.

You need to specify a criterion and a range of cell to check that criterion.

58. AVERAGEIFS Function: It averages the number of cells which meet criteria.

You need to specify criteria and ranges to check those criteria.

59. MAX Function: It returns the largest value in a set of values. You can refer to

a range or insert values directly into the function as well.

60. MIN Function: It returns the smallest value in a set of values. You can refer to

a range or insert values directly into the function as well.


Lookup Functions
61. ADDRESS Function: It returns the address of a cell in a worksheet, given

specified row and column numbers.

62. AREAS Function: It returns the number of areas in a given reference. An area

can be a range of contiguous cells or a single cell.

63. CHOOSE Function: It returns a value from a list based on position given.

64. COLUMN Function: It returns the column number of the given reference.

65. COLUMNS Function: It returns the number of columns included in the given

reference.

66. FORMULATEXT Function: It returns a formula as a string from the referred

cell.

67. HLOOKUP Function: It searches for a value in the top row of a table or an

array of values, and returns a value in the same column from a row you specify.

68. HYPERLINK Function: It creates a hyperlink that opens a document stored on

a network server, an intranet, or the Internet.

69.INDEX Function: It returns a value from a column or a row based on the

position of that value in the column or row.

70. INDIRECT Function: It returns the reference specified by a text string. You

need to mention the text and reference style.

71. LOOKUP Function: It helps to lookup for a value from a single column or row.

72. MATCH Function: It returns a number representing the position of a cell in an

array. In simple words, you get the position of a cell in from a column or row.

73. OFFSET Function: It creates a reference offset from given starting cell using

height and width.

74. ROW Function: It returns the row number of the given reference.
75. ROWS Function: It returns the number of rows included in the given

reference.

76. TRANSPOSE Function: It switches row into column and column into rows using

Ctrl + Shift + Enter.

77. VLOOKUP Function: It looks up for a value in a column and returns the value

from the right of the value that you have found.

Financial Functions
78. FV Function: It calculates the future value of an investment which is based on

periodic and constant payments and on a constant rate of interest.

79. PMT Function: It calculates loan payment based on fixed monthly payments

and constant rate of interest.

80. PV Function: It helps you to determine that an investment is profitable or not.

For using PV function, you need a constant interest rate, constant periodic

payments.

Information Functions
81. CELL Function: It returns some specific information about a cell. You need to

refer to a cell and type of information you need.

82. ERROR.TYPE Function: It returns a number if the referred cell has an error.

For each type of error, there is a different number it returns.

83. INFO Function: It returns information about the current operating

environment. You can select the type of information you need from the function.

84. ISBLANK Function: It verifies a cell and return TRUE if that cell is blank (no

value) and FALSE if that cell is not blank.


85. ISERR Function: It verifies a cell and return TRUE if that cell has an error

other than #N/A and FALSE if that cell has any other value.

86. ISERROR Function: It verifies a cell and return TRUE if that cell has an error,

otherwise it returns a FALSE.

87. ISEVEN Function: It verifies a cell and return TRUE if that cell has an ever,

otherwise it returns a FALSE.

88. ISFORMULA Function: It verifies a cell and return TRUE if that cell has a

formula, otherwise it returns a FALSE.

89. ISLOGICAL Function: It verifies a cell and return TRUE if that cell has a logical

value, otherwise it returns a FALSE.

90. ISNA Function: It verifies a cell and returns TRUE if that cell has and #N/A

error, otherwise it returns a FALSE.

91. ISNONTEXT Function: It verifies a cell and return TRUE if that cell has a non-

text value, otherwise it returns a FALSE.

92. ISNUMBER Function: It verifies a cell and return TRUE if that cell has a

numeric value, otherwise it returns a FALSE.

93. ISODD Function: It verifies a cell and return TRUE if that cell has an odd

number, otherwise it returns a FALSE.

94. ISREF Function: It verifies a cell and return TRUE if that cell has a reference,

otherwise it returns a FALSE.

95. ISTEXT Function: It verifies a cell and return TRUE if that cell has a text value,

otherwise it returns a FALSE.

96. N Function: It converts a logical value into a number. 1 for TRUE and 0 for

FALSE.

85. ISERR Function: It verifies a cell and return TRUE if that cell has an error

other than #N/A and FALSE if that cell has any other value.

97. NA Function: It returns an #N/A in the cell where you enter it.
98. SHEET Function: It returns the worksheet number of the reference.

99. SHEETS Function: It returns the number of sheets in a reference.

100. TYPE Function: It returns a number representing a value type. When you

refer a cell in this function, it verifies the value and returns a number to present

it.

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