Introduction to Excel

Ctrl Shift Down Arrow - to get all number in a column

Copy, Paste, Value Paste - paste numbers without changing their values

Excel Functions:

  • =SUM: returns the sum of the cells or range selected

  • =MAX: returns the largest number in a given set of values

  • =MIN: returns the smallest number in a given set of values

  • =AVERAGE: returns the average value of the given numbers

  • =SUMPRODUCT: returns the sum after multiplying numbers in an array.

  • =RAND(): returns random number greater than 0 and less than 1.

  • =RANDBETWEEN(#lowest, #highest): return random number between specified numbers.

  • =TRIM: remove spaces all before and following the words, but does not remove the single space between words.

  • =CONCATENATE: joins several (more than 1) text strings into 1 string

    • Ex: =CONCATENATE(A2,” has scored “,B2,” in “, $B$1”, “.”)

  • =Left,right and mid: returns the number of specified characters from the start/end of the string.

  • =MID: returns the number of specified characters from the specified point.

    • =MID(A2,5,5)

    • =LEN(A8)

    • # of characters

    • =MID(A8,5,LEN(A8),-6)

And OR

  • =AND - checks if all arguments are true and returns True value else returns FALSE value

  • =OR - checks if any of the conditions are true or not and returns TRUE value else returns FALSE value

  • =IF - checks whether a condition is true or not and on the basis of that returns a value

  • =COUNTIF - returns the count of number of cells which consist of numbers and meet a given condition

  • =SUMIF - returns the sum of the cells which meet a given criteria

  • simple number like 1, no double quotation

  • >1 or <=1, needs double quotation