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Excel Functions

The functions in Excel do most of the current work and there are functions to do many things.

The function can have parameters and you have to respect the rules of it. 


Help in functions

If you press the equal sign it will show you a helping page explaining each of the parameters of the function and allowing you to ask for extra help.

Tip about Excel functions

You may create your own functions in VBA and use them where you want.

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Excel Functions

Excel has hundreds of functions.

Mathematical Functions

The functions more used in some cases have more than one way to be done.

SUM, COUNT, MAX, MIN

Information functions 
  • ISBLANK(): Checks whether a cell is empty
  • ISNUMBER(), ISTEXT(): Checks whether a cell contains a number or text
Statistics functions 
  • COUNT(), COUNTA(): Counts the number of cells that contain numbers, and counts non-empty cells, respectively
  • MEDIAN(): Finds the median of a range
  • STDEV(): Estimates standard deviation based on a sample


Financial functions 
  • PMT(): Calculates the payment for a loan based on constant payments and a constant interest rate
  • FV(): Calculates the future value of an investment
  • NPV(): Calculates the net present value of an investment


Logical functions 
  • IF(): Performs a logical test and returns one value for a TRUE result, and another for a FALSE result
  • AND(), OR(): Checks whether all conditions in a test are TRUE, or if any of the conditions are TRUE, respectively
  • NOT(): Reverses the logic of its argument
Text functions 
  • CONCATENATE(), TEXTJOIN(): Joins two or more text strings into one string
  • LEFT(), RIGHT(), MID(): Extracts a substring from a string starting from the left, right, or a specified position
  • UPPER(), LOWER(), PROPER(): Converts text to uppercase, lowercase, or proper case
Date and Time functions 
  • NOW(), TODAY(): Returns the current date and time, or just the current date
  • DATE(): Converts a date in the form of text to a serial number that Excel recognizes as a date
  • DATEDIF(): Calculates the difference between two dates
Database functions 
  • DSUM(): Adds the numbers in a field (column) of records in a database that match the specified conditions.
  • DAVERAGE(): Calculates the average of selected database entries.
  • DCOUNT(), DCOUNTA(): Counts the cells that contain numbers in a database, and DCOUNTA() counts non-blank cells.
  • DMIN(), DMAX(): Finds the minimum and maximum value, respectively, in a column of a list or database that matches the given conditions.
Search Functions
  • VLOOKUP(), HLOOKUP(): Looks for a value in a table array and returns a value in the same row or column
  • INDEX(): Returns the value of a cell in a table based on the row and column number
  • MATCH(): Searches for a specified item in a range and returns the relative position of that item

INDEX(block; Line; Column)

It allows you to find the value of a cell inside a certain block.

Is used more to retrieve a certain column from a record in a block.

Your block may be defined with a name or absolute coordinates in order that you can copy the formula to other place and keed the reference to the same block.