Introduction INDIRECT function in excel is a reference function. It is used to change a text string to a valid reference in formula. It can be used when a reference in form of text need to be changed into a valid reference. This reference does not change when rows and columns are added into the … Read more
Introduction EOMONTH function in Excel is a type of DATE/TIME function. It used to obtain last date of a month. This date can be of the present month or a month in past and future. It returns a serial number which can be formatted into a readable form. It can be used to calculate due … Read more
Introduction HLOOKUP function in excel is a lookup function. This function is used to return data from a row in a table. Here ‘H’ stands for horizontal as the function moves horizontally to right in a row to lookup a value. It is used in three ways- Exact value, approximate value, Wildcard value. It is … Read more
Introduction INDEX function in excel is a lookup or reference function. It is used to return reference or value from a table or array to another location. It uses both row and column position to retrieve the value. It can return a row, column or a single cell. It is often used in combination with … Read more
Introduction EDATE function in Excel is a type of DATE/TIME function. It used to obtain a date in future and past on the exact same day of a specified date. It returns a serial number which provides a date which is after or before the specified date. It is used to find expiry dates and … Read more
Introduction DAY function in Excel is a type of DATE/TIME function. It gives value of the day of month numbering between 1 and 31. This function can be applied to find the number of the day from the date present in the cell. This can also be used to extract and put the number of … Read more
Introduction COLUMNS function in excel is a lookup or reference function. It provides us with number of COLUMNS in an array or reference. We have to enter a range in Excel format and it returns number of COLUMNS present in that range. For example row A1:C6 gives 3 as the result. Syntax =COLUMNS(Array) Arguments … Read more
Introduction DATEDIF function in Excel is a type of DATE/TIME function. This function helps us in finding difference between two dates in form of month or year or day. It is bifurcated as (DATE+DIFEERENCE). We get in return a number representing time interval between the dates. Syntax =DATEDIF(START-DATE, END-DATE,UNIT) Arguments START-DATE:- This is the start … Read more
Introduction DATE function in Excel is a type of DATE/TIME function. It is used to make a date from given year, month, day which are provided individually. It can also be used as an assembler of dates which are changed from time to time based on values in the worksheet. Syntax =DATE(YEAR, MONTH,DAY) Arguments YEAR … Read more
Introduction COLUMN function in excel is a reference function. It returns the COLUMN number of a cell to which reference is made. If we provide no reference than function returns the reference value of the cell in which the function is written. For example =COLUMN(C9)returns 3 as C9 is the 3RD Column in Excel. Syntax … Read more