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Doing Advanced Functions and Formuls in Excel

This document discusses advanced functions and formulas in Excel. It explains that spreadsheets use functions and formulas to perform calculations easily. Functions return results and require an equal sign, while arguments provide inputs. There are hundreds of functions in Excel across categories like mathematical, date/time, logical, and lookup/reference. Common functions include SUM to add numbers, AVERAGE to calculate averages, and COUNT to count cells with numbers.

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Doing Advanced Functions and Formuls in Excel

This document discusses advanced functions and formulas in Excel. It explains that spreadsheets use functions and formulas to perform calculations easily. Functions return results and require an equal sign, while arguments provide inputs. There are hundreds of functions in Excel across categories like mathematical, date/time, logical, and lookup/reference. Common functions include SUM to add numbers, AVERAGE to calculate averages, and COUNT to count cells with numbers.

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Doing Advanced Functions

and
Formuls in Excel
▸ Electronic spreadsheet softwares like Microsoft Excel or simply Excel create and
produce calculations and operations. Spreadsheets are designed with functions
and formulas that will make calculations easiear and convenient for you.
▸ A spreadsheet serves different purposes in every profession. This include the
following:
1. To automatically calculate the values entered.
2. To track personal investments, expenses, inventory, address, telephone
numbers, among others.
3. To graph, analyze, and store information using chaarts, graphs, and
tables.

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Functions
▸ Functions are calculations that return a result. To create and enter functions, always
start with an equal sign (=). Without it, Excel will not calculate the result. The inputs
in functions are called arguments. Arguments can be in a form of numbers, cell
references or texts.
▸ There are hundreds of functions found I Excel. All these can be accessed using the
following methods:
1. Click the Insert Function on the left side of the Formulas tab, or click it in the
formula bar. You could also press ShiftF3.

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Functions
▸ 2. Select a function form one of the lists in the Insert Function dialog box. In the
example below, AVERAGE is selected. Click OK.

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Functions
▸ 3. The Function Arguments dialog box will appear automatically to assist you. This
window indicates what each function does and the arguments that each function
considers. Input numbers in your selected function.

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Functions
▸ 4. You may use the mouse to click the desired ranges that you want to include in the
function. The cell address will be automatically inserted in your function.
▸ 5. Once the numbers are typed, click OK. The answer to the Function is shown in the
active cell.

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These are some of the categories of functions:

▸ Mathematical- These include mathematical function such as AVERAGE (), SUM ().
etc.
▸ Date and Time- These are concerned with the date and time such as DATEVALUE()
that converts date written in texts to numbers.
▸ Logical- These are used whether arguments, text, or values are true or not depending
on the set standard.
▸ Lookup and Reference- These functions are used when looking for an entry or a
value in the spreadsheet.

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Some examples of the commonly used functions:

▸ SUM- This is used to add two or more numbers together. Cell references are used in
this formula.
▸ AVERAGE- This is used to calculate the average of a series of numbers.
▸ COUNT- This is used to count the number of cells in a range that have numbers in
them.
▸ COUNTA-This is used to count the number of cells that have numbers and/or any
other characters in them.
▸ LEN- This is used to return the length of a string or an entry.

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