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Excel Advanced Procedures

The document discusses the order of operations in formulas and the BODMAS rule. It provides examples of formulas and the correct order that operations are performed. It also lists the operators used in Excel and the order they are calculated.

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Excel Advanced Procedures

The document discusses the order of operations in formulas and the BODMAS rule. It provides examples of formulas and the correct order that operations are performed. It also lists the operators used in Excel and the order they are calculated.

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Order of Operations in Formulas

Follow the BODMAS rule

B – Brackets (Parentheses)
O – Orders (Powers/Exponents)
D – Division
M – Multiplication
A – Addition
S – Subtraction

(In US, BODMAS is known as PEMDAS – Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition and
Subtraction)

Note – Actually, Division and Multiplication have same precedence. Similarly, Addition and Subtraction
have the same precedence.

Within a formula, Excel uses following order for various operators –

Operator Description Illustration


: Range A1:A100
Space Intersection A5:G5 C1:C10
, Union A1:A10,B1:C5,D20:E80
- Negation -A1
% Percentage 40%
^ Exponentiation 3^4
* or / Multiplication or Division 3*4 or 12/6
+ or - Addition or Subtraction 3+4 or 8-5
& Concatenation Operator A1&A2
=, <, >, <=, >=, <> Comparison Operators A1=A2, A1<A2, A1>A2, A1<=A2, A1>=A2,
A1<>A2

You may use Parentheses to change the order as Parentheses are calculated first.

Example Answer
5+4*3 17
(5+4)*3 27
5*4+18/3-10 16
18+3^4*2-10 170
-2^3*5+10 -30
-2^3*(5+10) -120
-2^(3*5)+1 -32758
5&2*9-12/3 514
8=8+9 FALSE
8+10<>8+9 TRUE
15*2-4*6>3 TRUE
15*2-4*6>3+9 FALSE
70+80*40% 102

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