MICROSOFT EXCEL 2016

Microsoft Excel is a commercial spreadsheet application, written and distributed by

Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. At the time of writing this tutorial the

Microsoft excel version was 2010 for Microsoft Windows and 2011 for Mac OS X.
Functions in MS excel

A function is a predefined formula that performs calculations using

specific values in a particular order. Excel includes many common functions
that can be used to quickly find the sum, average, count, maximum value,
and minimum value for a range of cells. In order to use functions correctly,
you'll need to understand the different parts of a function and how to create
arguments to calculate values and cell references.
Types of functions

 Compatibility functions
 Cube functions
 Data base functions
 Date and time functions
 Engineering functions
 Financial functions
 Information functions
 Logical functions
 Lookup and reference functions
 Math and trigonometry functions
 Statistical functions
 Text functions
 Web functions
 Text Function

The Microsoft Excel TEXT function returns a value converted to text with a
specified format. The TEXT function is a built-in function in Excel that is
categorized as a String/Text Function. It can be used as a worksheet function (WS)
in Excel.
1. EXACT

 Compares two text strings and returns TRUE if they are exactly the same,
FALSE otherwise. EXACT is case-sensitive but ignores formatting differences.
Use EXACT to test text being entered into a document.
Syntax : EXACT(text1, text2)

Formula Description Result

=EXACT(A2,B2) Checks whether the strings in the first row match TRUE
2. CONCATENATE

 Join two or more text strings into one string.

Syntax: CONCATENATE(text1, [text2], ...)

Example :
3. UPPER

 The Microsoft Excel UPPER function allows you to convert text to all uppercase.

Syntax: =UPPER( text )

Example
=UPPER("Excel")
Result: "EXCEL"
4. LOWER

 The Excel LOWER function returns a lower-case version of a

given text string....

Syntax
=LOWER (text)

Example
=LOWER("Excel")
Result: "excel"
5. PROPER

 The Excel PROPER function capitalizes words given text string.

Numbers and punctuation are not affected.

Syntax
=PROPER (text)

Example
=PROPER("EXcel")
Result: “Excel"
6. LEFT

 The Excel LEFT function extracts a given number of characters from the
left side of a supplied text string.

Syntax
=LEFT (text, [num_chars])

Example
=LEFT("apple",3)
Result : "app"
7. RIGHT

 The Excel RIGHT function extracts a given number of characters from the right side of a supplied text
string.
Syntax
=RIGHT (text, [num_chars])

Example
=Right("apple",3)
Result : "ple"
8.LEN

 Len function in Excel helps you to know the length of a string that is number of characters in a string.
Syntax = LEN(text)
Note – Spaces are included while calculating length.
9. MID

 Mid function in Excel is used to extract the characters from the middle of a
string.
Syntax = MID(text, start_char, num_chars)
10. FIND

 Find function in Excel is used when you want to know the position of certain characters
in a particular string.
Syntax =FIND(find_text, within_text,[start_num])