Introduction DAYS360 function in Excel is a type of DATE/TIME function. It gives value of the number of days falling between two dates by considering a 360 days year. It does so by considering every month of the year to be consisting of 30 days. This function can be applied to find the number of the days from the date present in the cell. This can also be used to extract and put the number of the days into other…
Introduction CONCAT in excel is a text/string function. This function is used to merge several text strings or ranges. This function was included in Excel 2016 and available in later versions, it replaced CONCATENATE function. This function does not include delimiter/Ignore Empty arguments. Syntax =CONCAT(Text1, Text2, ….) Arguments Text1: It is the text values which will be merged together, can be a string or an array of strings or a range of cells.Text2: Additional text values to be joined, maximum…
Introduction DBCS function in excel is a text/string function. Its full form is (Double Byte Character Set). This function is used to convert single byte characters into double byte characters in a text string. This function is useful for multiple languages and unique characters. Half width characters are converted to full width characters. For example, =DBCS(“PRINCE) gives PRINCE as the result. Syntax =DBCS(Text) Arguments Text: It is the text or reference which contains the characters you wants to convert to…
Introduction DOLLAR in excel is a text/string function. This function converts a numeric value into text value using Currency Format and it also rounds off decimal places to the value specified. The currency character used is dependent on the local languages settings. Format which this function uses is$#,##0.00_);($#,##0.00). For example, 12 is converted to $12 by using the formula =DOLLAR(12) Syntax =DOLLAR(Number, Decimals) Arguments Number: It is the number or a reference to a cell which contains the number.Decimals: It…
Introduction CEILING.PRECISE function in excel is a Math/Trig function. It is a worksheet function. It rounds up the given function to a defined multiple or the nearest integer. It is different from CEILING function in the sense that whatever may be the sign of the number, it always rounds up. By default it uses 1 as a multiple. For example, number 1.5 is rounded up to nearest multiple of 1 by formula =CEILING.PRECISE(1.5,1) which gives 2 as the result. Syntax…
Introduction FORMULATEXT function in excel is a Math/Trig function. It is a worksheet function. This function is used to retrieve a formula from a reference in form of a text string. Syntax =FORMULATEXT(Reference) Arguments Reference- t is the reference made to a range or cell. Keynotes Reference argument can be from other worksheet also.If the other worksheet to which reference is made is not open, #N/A error is displayed.If the reference is made two an entire range, the value in…
Introduction CEILING.MATH function in excel is a Math/Trig function. It is a worksheet function. It rounds up the given function to a defined multiple. For example, number 1.5 is rounded up to nearest multiple of 1 by formula =CEILING.MATH(1.5,1) which gives 2 as the result. CEILING.MATH function is different from CEILING as it uses 1 as a default multiple and explicitly rounds up negative integers. Syntax =CEILING.MATH(Number, Significance, Mode) Arguments Number- The number or cell containing the number that is…
Introduction IFS comes in the category of logical functions. IFS function can be used for logical comparison of values and to get the first result when the comparison is TRUE and second result when the comparison is FALSE. IFS function can do multiple tests in a single run and is a very good alternative of nested IF function. It is evaluated by putting various logical operators like “=”,”>”,”<” etc. in the formula .IFS function is also used in combination with…
Introduction CLEAN in excel is a text/string function. This function cleans non printable elements and line breaks in a text. It can be used to omit non printable elements from text that has been imported from other software or online links, which is not usable in your operating system. For example, ($week©) can be cleaned by using =CLEAN($week©) formula which gives (week) as the result. Syntax =CLEAN(Text) Arguments Text: It is the text which will be cleaned, cell number which…
Introduction CLEAN in excel is a text/string function. This function retrieves code from first character of a string. It retrieves Macintosh code for Mac system and ANSI system for Windows system. For example, =CODE(“B”) gives 66 as the value for Windows operating system. Syntax =CODE(Text) Arguments Text: It is the text whose first character will be used and whose code will be retrieved. Keynotes This function was added in Excel 2000 and is available in later versions also.If text argument…