Friday, 2 November 2018

Microsoft Excel - Working with Functions

Working with Functions. 

A function is a type of formula that returns a specific result.

Excel has a few hundred functions, the functions have been categorised into several categories. This makes it easier to locate the function required.

The Categories are: 


Financial, Logical, Text, Date & Time, Lookup & Reference, Math & Trig and More Functions.

The categories can be found by selecting the Formulas tab.

Below we have included examples of some of the more common functions.


SUM Function.


The SUM function creates a total from a list of numbers. It can be used either horizontally or vertically.

AVERAGE Function.

The AVERAGE function calculates the average from a list of numbers.

If the cell is blank or contains text, the cell will not be used in the average calculation.

If the cell contains zero 0, the cell will be included in the average calculation.



MIN Function.

This function picks the lowest value from a list of data.


 




MAX Function.

This function picks the highest value from a list of data. Examples of the MAX function.

COUNT Function.

This function counts the number of numeric entries in a list. It will ignore blanks, text and errors.

Examples of the COUNT function.

COUNTA Function.

This function counts the number of numeric or text entries in a list. It will ignore blanks.

Examples of the COUNTA function.





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