The TEXT function takes two arguments, value and format_text. Value is the number to be formatted as text and should be a numeric value. If value is already text, no formatting is applied. Format_text is a text string that contains the number formatting codes to apply to value. Supply format_text as a text string enclosed in double quotes (""). To see examples of various number format codes, see Excel Custom Number Formats....
TEXTBEFORE takes six arguments; only the first two are required. The first argument, text, is the text string to process. The second argument, delimiter is the substring to use as a delimiter when extracting text. Both text and delimiter are required. The third argument, instance_num, is an integer that represents the nth instance of the delimiter in text (i.e. to extract the text before the second instance, use 2 for instance_num)....
With the Euro symbol in cell A1, the formula below has the same result: If text is more than one character, UNICODE returns the number of the first character: Note: the UNICHAR function performs the opposite conversion, returning the Unicode character at a given code point. Unicode Unicode is a computing standard for the unified encoding, representation, and handling of text in most of the world’s writing systems. Like ASCII, Unicode is a character set....
The XNPV function takes three arguments: rate, values, and dates. Rate represents the discount rate to apply to the cash flows. Enter rate as a percentage like 6% or the decimal value 0.06. Values represent a series of cash flows that correspond to dates. The first value is optional and corresponds to a cost at the beginning of the investment. If the first value is a cost or payment, it must be a entered as a negative number....
In the example shown, the formula in C5 is: The FIND function provides the starting point, and for total characters to extract, we just use LEN on the original text. This is a bit sloppy, but it avoids having to calculate the exact number of characters to extract. MID doesn’t care if this number is bigger than the remaining characters, it simply extracts all text following “@”. Next, we “flood” the remaining text with space characters, by replacing any single space with 100 spaces using a combination of SUBSTITUTE and REPT: This seems crazy, but the logic becomes clear below....
With January 1, 2000 in cell B5, the TEXT function returns the text string “Saturday”. For all examples, keep in mind that Excel dates are large serial numbers, displayed as dates with number formatting. Day name with custom number format To display a date using only the day name, you don’t need a formula; you can just use a custom number format. Select the date, and use the shortcut Control + 1 to open Format cells....
In the example shown, the VLOOKUP formula looks like this: In “exact match mode” VLOOKUP will check every value in the first column of the supplied table for the lookup value. If it finds an exact match, VLOOKUP will return a value from the same row, using the supplied column number. If no exact match is found, VLOOKUP will return the #N/A error. Note: it’s important to require an exact match using FALSE or 0 for the last argument, which is called “range_lookup”)....
where “holidays” is the named range G6:G8. The NETWORKDAYS function includes both the start and end date in the calculation, and excludes both Saturday and Sunday by default. The function will also exclude holidays when then are provided as the “holidays” argument as a range of valid dates. In these example shown, the first two formulas use the NETWORKDAYS function. If your workweek includes days other than Monday through Friday, you can switch to the NETWORKDAYS....
The SEARCH function returns the position of the value if found, and and the #VALUE error if not found. For B4, the results come back in an array like this: The ISNUMBER function changes all results to TRUE or FALSE: The double negative in front of ISNUMBER forces TRUE/FALSE to 1/0: The SUMPRODUCT function then adds up the results, which is tested against zero: Any non-zero result means at least one value was found, so the formula returns TRUE, triggering the rule....
If you want to highlight cells that end with certain text, you can use a simple formula based on the COUNTIF function. For example, if you want to highlight states in the range B4:G12 that end with “ota”, you can use: Note: with conditional formatting, it’s important that the formula be entered relative to the “active cell” in the selection, which is assumed to be B4 in this case. The formula itself uses the COUNTIF function to “count” cells that end with “ota” using the pattern “ota” which uses a wildcard () to match any sequence of characters followed by “ota”....
Let’s take a look. Here we have a table with several rows of sample text. The top three rows contain a single line of text. The bottom three rows contain larger amounts of text. The options available for vertical alignment in Excel are listed across the top of the table. Let’s format the text in each column to match the headings. For columns C, D, and E, it’s easiest to set vertical alignment using the three buttons in the Alignment group on the home tab of the ribbon....
Before you panic, and call IT to tell them Excel is broken, check to see if Scroll Lock is to blame. Read below to learn how. If you don’t understand what’s going on, this can be quite distressing :) Fortunately, the Scroll Lock setting is a toggle, much like Caps Lock. If you have a Scroll Lock key on your keyboard, just press it to toggle Scroll Lock off. Done....
Let’s take a look. This is a pretty basic table with a simple gray border. Let’s upgrade this design to something with a little more polish. First, let’s remove all borders. For this, we can use the preset in the border menu on the ribbon. Now let’s increase the row height to 30 for all the rows in the table. This will make it easier to use more color without the table feeling too crowded....
where item is the named range B5:B12, price is the named range D5:D12, and data is sorted ascending by date. First, this expression is evaluated: When F7 contains “sandals” the result is an array of TRUE and FALSE values like this: This array is provided as the divisor to 1: The math operation automatically coerces the TRUE and FALSE values to 1s and 0s, so the result is another array like this: returned directly to the LOOKUP function as the lookup vector argument....
where data is an Excel Table in the range B5:D15. XLOOKUP function The XLOOKUP function is a modern replacement for the VLOOKUP function. A key benefit of XLOOKUP is that it can handle array operations as the lookup_array or return_array. This means we can construct the lookup_array we need as part of the formula. We start off by providing lookup_value as 1: Note: The lookup value of 1 has nothing to do with the value for n, which is also 1 in this case....
Where dates (B5:B15) and values (C5:C15) are named ranges. Note: this is an array formula and must be entered with Control + Shift + Enter. This results in an array like this: which is then compared to the text in F4, “Mon”. The result is another array, which contains only TRUE and FALSE values: Note each TRUE corresponds to a Monday. This array is returned inside the IF function as the logical test....
where data (B5:F15) and header (B4:F4) are named ranges. In a standard configuration, the INDEX function retrieves a value at a given row and column. For example, to get the value at row 2 and column 3 in a given range: However, INDEX has a special trick – the ability to retrieve entire columns and rows. The syntax involves supplying zero for the “other” argument. If you want an entire column, you supply row as zero....
As the formula is copied down the column, it returns the correct number for each month. Working from the inside out, we start by concatenating the name in cell B5 to the number 1: This expression returns a string like “January1”, “February1”, “March1”,and so on. It turns out, that if we pass a date fragment like this into the MONTH function, it will coerce the string to a valid date, using the current year....
Note: this formula is not case-sensitive, you can find a case-sensitive formula here. The COUNTIF then returns a count of any cells that do not contain “OK” which is compared to zero. If the count is zero, the formula returns TRUE. If the count is anything but zero, the formula returns FALSE. Ignore empty cells To ignore empty cells, you can use a more generic version of the formula: This formula generates a count of all matching values, and compares that count to a count of all non-empty cells....
The results in column E are decimal values with the percentage number format applied. Converting this to an Excel formula with cell references, the formula in E5 becomes: When the result the Percentage number format is applied, 0.75 is displayed as 75%. As the formula is copied down, the formula returns percentage sold for item in the table. Formatting percentages in Excel In mathematics, a percentage is a number expressed as a fraction of 100....
