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Excel functions (by category)

Applies To: Excel 2016, Excel 2013, Excel 2010, Excel 2007
, Excel 2016 for Mac, Excel for Mac 2011, More...

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Worksheet functions are categorized by their functionality. Click a category to
browse its functions. Or press Ctrl+F to find a function by typing the first few letters
or a descriptive word. To get detailed information about a function, click its name
in the first column.
Our 10 most popular functions
Here are the 10 functions that people read about most.

Function

Description

SUM
function

Use this function to add the values in cells.

IF
function

Use this function to return one value if a condition is true and another value
if it's false. Here's a video about using the IF function.

LOOKUP
function

Use this function when you need to look in a single row or column and find a
value from the same position in a second row or column.

VLOOKUP
function

Use this function when you need to find things in a table or a range by row.
For example, look up an employee's last name by her employee number, or
find her phone number by looking up her last name just like a telephone
book. Check out this video about using VLOOKUP.

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Function

Description

MATCH
function

Use this function to search for an item in a range of cells, and then return the
relative position of that item in the range. For example, if the range A1:A3
contains the values 5, 7, and 38, then the formula =MATCH7,A1:A3,0
returns the number 2, because 7 is the second item in the range.

CHOOSE

Use this function to select one of up to 254 values based on the index

function

number. For example, if value1 through value7 are the days of the week,
CHOOSE returns one of the days when a number between 1 and 7 is used as
index_num.

DATE

Use this function to return the sequential serial number that represents a

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particular date. This function is most useful in situations where the year,
month, and day are supplied by formulas or cell references. For example, you
might have a worksheet that contains dates in a format that Excel does not
recognize, such as YYYYMMDD.
Use the DATEDIF function to calculate the number of days, months, or years
between two dates.

DAYS

Use this function to return the number of days between two dates.

function

FIND,

FIND and FINDB locate one text string within a second text string. They

FINDB
functions

return the number of the starting position of the first text string from the
first character of the second text string.

INDEX
function

Use this function to return a value or the reference to a value from within a
table or range.

Compatibility functions
In Excel 2010 or later, these functions were replaced with new functions that provide
improved accuracy and have names that better reflect their usage. You can still use them for
compatibility with earlier versions of Excel, but if backward compatibility isn't required, you
should start using the new functions instead. For more information about the new
functions, see Statistical functions reference and Math and trigonometry functions
reference .
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If you're using Excel 2007, you'll find these functions in the Statistical or Math & Trig
Function on the Formulas
Description
categories
tab.

Function

Description

BETADIST

Returns the beta cumulative distribution function

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BETAINV

Returns the inverse of the cumulative distribution function for a

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specified beta distribution

BINOMDIST

Returns the individual term binomial distribution probability

function

CHIDIST

Returns the onetailed probability of the chisquared distribution

function

CHIINV function

Returns the inverse of the onetailed probability of the chisquared

distribution

CHITEST

Returns the test for independence

function

CONCATENATE

Joins two or more text strings into one string

function

CONFIDENCE
function

Returns the confidence interval for a population mean

COVAR function

Returns covariance, the average of the products of paired deviations

CRITBINOM

Returns the smallest value for which the cumulative binomial

function

distribution is less than or equal to a criterion value

EXPONDIST

Returns the exponential distribution

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Function

Description

FDIST function

Returns the F probability distribution

FINV function

Returns the inverse of the F probability distribution

FLOOR function

Rounds a number down, toward zero

FORECAST
function

Calculates, or predicts, a future value by using existing values.

FTEST function

Returns the result of an Ftest

GAMMADIST

Returns the gamma distribution

function

GAMMAINV

Returns the inverse of the gamma cumulative distribution

function

HYPGEOMDIST

Returns the hypergeometric distribution

function

LOGINV

Returns the inverse of the lognormal cumulative distribution function

function

LOGNORMDIST
function

Returns the cumulative lognormal distribution

MODE function

Returns the most common value in a data set

NEGBINOMDIST

Returns the negative binomial distribution

function

NORMDIST

Returns the normal cumulative distribution

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Function

Description

NORMINV

Returns the inverse of the normal cumulative distribution

function

NORMSDIST
function

Returns the standard normal cumulative distribution

NORMSINV
function

Returns the inverse of the standard normal cumulative distribution

PERCENTILE
function

Returns the kth percentile of values in a range

PERCENTRANK

Returns the percentage rank of a value in a data set

POISSON
function

Returns the Poisson distribution

QUARTILE
function

Returns the quartile of a data set

RANK function

Returns the rank of a number in a list of numbers

STDEV function

Estimates standard deviation based on a sample

STDEVP

Calculates standard deviation based on the entire population

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TDIST function

Returns the Student's tdistribution

TINV function

Returns the inverse of the Student's tdistribution

TTEST function

Returns the probability associated with a Student's ttest

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Function

Description
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VAR function

Estimates variance based on a sample

VARP function

Calculates variance based on the entire population

WEIBULL
function

Returns the Weibull distribution

ZTEST function

Returns the onetailed probabilityvalue of a ztest

Cube functions
Database functions

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Date and time functions

Function

Description

DATE function

Returns the serial number of a particular date

DATEDIF function

Calculates the number of days, months, or years between two

dates. This function is useful in formulas where you need to
calculate an age.

DATEVALUE function

Converts a date in the form of text to a serial number

DAY function

Converts a serial number to a day of the month

DAYS function

Returns the number of days between two dates

DAYS360 function

Calculates the number of days between two dates based on a

360day year

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Function

Description

EDATE function

Returns the serial number of the date that is the indicated

number of months before or after the start date

EOMONTH function

Returns the serial number of the last day of the month before or
after a specified number of months

HOUR function

Converts a serial number to an hour

ISOWEEKNUM

Returns the number of the ISO week number of the year for a

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given date

MINUTE function

Converts a serial number to a minute

MONTH function

Converts a serial number to a month

NETWORKDAYS

Returns the number of whole workdays between two dates

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NETWORKDAYS.INTL

Returns the number of whole workdays between two dates using

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parameters to indicate which and how many days are weekend

days

NOW function

Returns the serial number of the current date and time

SECOND function

Converts a serial number to a second

TIME function

Returns the serial number of a particular time

TIMEVALUE function

Converts a time in the form of text to a serial number

TODAY function

Returns the serial number of today's date

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Function

Description

Function
Description
WEEKDAY function
Converts a serial number to a day of the week

WEEKNUM function

Converts a serial number to a number representing where the

week falls numerically with a year

WORKDAY function

Returns the serial number of the date before or after a specified

number of workdays

WORKDAY.INTL

Returns the serial number of the date before or after a specified

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number of workdays using parameters to indicate which and how

many days are weekend days

YEAR function

Converts a serial number to a year

YEARFRAC function

Returns the year fraction representing the number of whole days

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between start_date and end_date

Engineering functions
Financial functions
Information functions
Logical functions
Lookup and reference functions
Math and trigonometry functions
Statistical functions
Text functions

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Function

Description

Function
ASC function

Description
Changes fullwidth doublebyte English letters or katakana within a
character string to halfwidth singlebyte characters

BAHTTEXT
function

Converts a number to text, using the baht currency format

CHAR function

Returns the character specified by the code number

CLEAN function

Removes all nonprintable characters from text

CODE function

Returns a numeric code for the first character in a text string

CONCAT
Combines
the text from multiple
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CONCATENATE

Joins several text items into one text item

function

DBCS function

Changes halfwidth singlebyte English letters or katakana within a

character string to fullwidth doublebyte characters

DOLLAR

Converts a number to text, using the $ dollar currency format

function

EXACT function

Checks to see if two text values are identical

FIND, FINDB
functions

Finds one text value within another casesensitive

FIXED function

Formats a number as text with a fixed number of decimals

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Function

Description

LEFT, LEFTB

Returns the leftmost characters from a text value

functions

LEN, LENB
functions

Returns the number of characters in a text string

LOWER

Converts text to lowercase

function

MID, MIDB

Returns a specific number of characters from a text string starting at

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the position you specify

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Converts text to number in a localeindependent manner

function

PHONETIC
function

Extracts the phonetic furigana characters from a text string

PROPER

Capitalizes the first letter in each word of a text value

function

REPLACE,

Replaces characters within text

REPLACEB
functions

REPT function

Repeats text a given number of times

RIGHT, RIGHTB

Returns the rightmost characters from a text value

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Function

Description

SEARCH,

Finds one text value within another not casesensitive

SEARCHB
functions

SUBSTITUTE

Substitutes new text for old text in a text string

function

T function

Converts its arguments to text

TEXT function

Formats a number and converts it to text

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TEXTJOIN
Combines
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delimiter you specify between each text value that will be combined. If
the delimiter is an empty text string, this function will effectively
concatenate the ranges.

TRIM function

Removes spaces from text

UNICHAR
function

Returns the Unicode character that is references by the given numeric

value

UNICODE

Returns the number code point that corresponds to the first character

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of the text

UPPER function

Converts text to uppercase

VALUE function

Converts a text argument to a number

User defined functions that are installed with addins

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Web functions

Version markers indicate the version of Excel a function was introduced. These
functions aren't available in earlier versions.
IMPORTANT:The calculated results of formulas and some Excel worksheet functions may differ

slightly between a Windows PC using x86 or x8664 architecture and a Windows RT PC using
ARM architecture. Learn more about the differences.

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See Also
Overview of formulas in Excel
How to avoid broken formulas
Use error checking to detect errors in formulas
Excel functions alphabetical

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