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Spreadsheet Functions To Organize Data Part3

The document discusses various spreadsheet functions for organizing data, including auditing tools like show formulas, trace precedents, and trace dependents. It also covers text functions like find and replace, date and time functions like today, now, edate, and networkdays. Finally, it discusses name ranges for navigating between worksheets.

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Spreadsheet Functions To Organize Data Part3

The document discusses various spreadsheet functions for organizing data, including auditing tools like show formulas, trace precedents, and trace dependents. It also covers text functions like find and replace, date and time functions like today, now, edate, and networkdays. Finally, it discusses name ranges for navigating between worksheets.

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Spreadsheet functions to organize


data Part-3
Formula Auditing
• Auditing Tools are used while working with
formulae.
• It will help us to track which cells are involved in
the given formula using Formula Tab.
• With the help of the show formula option, we
can check all the formulae used in the given
worksheet.
• Other options are Trace Precedents, Trace
Dependents.
Use of Show
It will show all the formulas used
Formulas
Use of Trace Precedents
It is used to show which cells are involved in the given
formula with the help of arrows.
Use of Trace Dependents
Evaluate Formula
Remaining Text Functions
Find function is used to find the position of any character in the given text
Search is also used to find the position of any character in the given text. The
difference between search and find is that, Find is case sensitive but search is
not case sensitive.
Replace function is used to replace a part of text with new text
Remaining Date and Time
Functions
Today() is used to find today’s date
Now() is used to find current date and time
Adding some days to the current day
Subtracting some days from the current day
Edate function is used to add or subtract months in a date. Here it
is used to add 8 months to the current date
Here edate function is used to subtract 8 months from the
current month
Adding 10
years to
current date
Subtracting
10 years from
the current
date
Networkdays() is used to find the net-working days in a year
Networkdays() is also used to calculate net-working days in a
year excluding saturdays, sundays and other national holidays
With the help
of custom
formatting,
we can
display date
vs day
Name Range
• Name Range is used to get the particular sheet
among multiple sheets.
• As if there are so many sheets, so
remembering name of every sheet would be
the difficult task.
• With the help of this name range, we can
reach that sheet from any other sheet.
Creating a Name Range
For cell a2 : a6, name range has been given as Name1. From another
sheet, using the cell name drop down this sheet can be found. It is
used for navigating between the worksheets in the workbook
Renaming a Name Range

Go to the
formula tab,
Name
Manager,
Select the
existing
name, and
then click on
edit. Add a
new name
and then Ok
• Similarly from this Name Manager, we can
create a Name Range, Edit a Name Range and
Delete a Name Range.
• Name Range can also be given to more than
one column.
• For that, select all those columns, then
formula tab, then create from selection and
then choose what names you want to use.
Count Functions
• Count

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