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What Is A Function: Excel Features and Functions

The document discusses Excel functions and features. It defines a function as an entity that takes input and provides output. It lists common types of functions such as statistical, financial, text, and logical functions. It provides rules for using functions and examples of common functions like AVERAGE, SUM, MAX, MIN, and IF. It also discusses using functions together through nesting and provides tips for viewing and editing functions through formatting cells and using keyboard shortcuts.

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What Is A Function: Excel Features and Functions

The document discusses Excel functions and features. It defines a function as an entity that takes input and provides output. It lists common types of functions such as statistical, financial, text, and logical functions. It provides rules for using functions and examples of common functions like AVERAGE, SUM, MAX, MIN, and IF. It also discusses using functions together through nesting and provides tips for viewing and editing functions through formatting cells and using keyboard shortcuts.

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EXCEL FEATURES AND

FUNCTIONS

What is a Function?
A function is an entity
which may take some
input and give the
required output.

Types of Functions

Statistical
Financial
Text
Math/Trigonometry
Lookup/ Reference
Information
Logical
Date

Rules for Functions


1.)

They must begin with an equal sign.


2.) The function name must be entered.
3.) Information about a cell or range of
cells to be analyzed must be included.
4.) Arguments about what to do with the
selected range of cells are entered at
last.

Average Function

Sum Function

Max Function

Min Function

Median Function

Round Function

ABS Function

Power Function

MOD Function

PI() Function

ADDRESS Function

Left Function

Right Function

MID Function

UPPER Function

LOWER Function

TRIM Function

Proper Function

Concatenate Function

IF Function
An If Statement is used in Excel to do
certain actions only if something is true.
For example, you might want to print
out the message "We are losing money"
if total sales for the quarter are below
some amount. Otherwise, you'd just
want to print out "We're making
money!"
The IF function lets you do these kinds
of value based decisions.

IF Function

Few more Logical Functions

OR() FUNCTION
AND() FUNCTION
NOT() FUNCTION
ISNUMBER() FUNCTION
ISTEXT() FUNCTION

Countif Function

Date Functions

Year()
Today()
Now()
Month()
Nesting date functions

Nesting functions

More on Formulas
We have a very complex
worksheet and need to check
all of the formulas. Is there any
way to have Excel show or print
the formulas rather than we
having to move the cell pointer
to check each formula in the
formula bar?

Viewing all the formulas on the


worksheet
There is an easy way to do this. With
your worksheet as the active sheet, hold
down the Ctrl key and hit the tilde key
All of your formulas will be displayed on
the screen at once. You can print the
worksheet while the formulas are
displayed. When you are done auditing
your formulas, hit Ctrl tilde again to
toggle back to the normal view .

Replacing * with /
Several columns of
formulas which perform a
multiplication needs to be
changed to formulas to do
a division instead.
Try doing this what happens?

When we try to use Edit Replace to change every


occurence of the "*" to a "/",
Excel treats the asterisk as a
wildcard and replaces our
entire formula with slash.
Is there a way to replace an
asterisk using edit replace?

To specify an asterisk or a
question mark in the
Excel Find or Excel
Replace dialog box,
precede the asterisk with
a tilde.

Custom formats
Can we format a series of
numbers (892, 665, 2542) so
they appear as shown:
.892, .665, 2.542?

Custom formats
Go to the custom number format box,
choosing
Format > Cells, click the number tab,
choose custom from the Category
tab, then click in the box under Type:
and start typing.
#"."000

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