Excel* for Chemists: A Comprehensive Guide, Third Edition

by E. Joseph Billo
Copyright 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Appendix B
Selected Worksheet
Functions
by Category
Excel 2003 and 2007/2010 provide more than 300 worksheet functions,
organized in ten categories: Database, Date and Time, Engineering, Financial,
Information, Logical, Lookup and Reference, Math and Trigonometry, Statistical
and Text. This appendix lists selected worksheet functions by category. In
Appendix C, the functions are listed alphabetically, with comments, examples
and related functions.

DATABASE FUNCTIONS
DAVERAGE Returns the average of selected values.
DCOUNT Returns the number of cells that contain numbers in a
specified field, according to specified criteria.
DCOUNTA Returns the number of cells that contain values in a
specified field, according to specified criteria.
DGET Returns a single record that matches the specified
criteria.
DMAX Returns the maximum value in the range Database.
DMIN Returns the minimum value in the range Database.
DPRODUCT Returns the product of values in a specified field that
match specified criteria in a database.
DSTDEV Returns the standard deviation of values in a specified
field that match specified criteria in a database.
DSTDEVP Returns the standard deviation of values in a specified
field that match specified criteria in a database.
DSUM Returns the sum of numbers in the field column of
records in the database that match the criteria.
DVAR Returns the variance of values in a specified field that
match specified criteria in a database.
DVARP Returns the variance of values in a specified field that
match specified criteria in a database.
SUBTOTAL Returns a subtotal in a database.

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DATE & TIME FUNCTIONS

DATE Returns the serial number of a date.
DATEVALUE Converts a date in the form of text to a serial number.
DAY Converts a serial number to a day of the month.
MONTH Converts a serial number to a month.
NOW Returns the serial number of the current date and time.
TODAY Returns the serial number of today's date.
WEEKDAY Converts a serial number to a day of the week.
YEAR Converts a serial number to a year.

INFORMA TION FUNCTIONS

CELL Returns information about the formatting, location or
contents of a cell.
COUNTBLANK Counts the number of blank cells within a range.
ERROR.TYPE Returns a number corresponding to an error value.
INFO Returns information about the current operating
environment.
ISBLANK Returns TRUE if the cell is blank.
ISERR Returns TRUE if the argument is any error value except
#N/A.
ISERROR Returns TRUE if the argument is an error value.
ISEVEN Returns TRUE if the argument is even.
ISLOGICAL Returns TRUE if the argument is a logical value.
ISNA Returns TRUE if the argument is #N/A.
ISNONTEXT Returns TRUE if the argument is not text.
ISNUMBER Returns TRUE if the argument is a number.
ISODD Returns TRUE if the argument is odd.
ISREF Returns TRUE if the argument is a reference.
ISTEXT Returns TRUE if the argument is text.
N Returns a value converted to a number. Excel usually
does this automatically when necessary.
NA Returns the error value #N/A
TYPE Returns a number indicating the data type of a value.

LOGICAL FUNCTIONS
AND Returns TRUE if all arguments are true, otherwise
FALSE.
FALSE Returns the logical value FALSE.
IF Returns one value if logicaljtest is TRUE, another value
i f logicaljtest is FALSE.
IFERROR Returns value_if_error if expression evaluates to an
error, otherwise returns expression (Excel 2007/2010
only).
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NOT Reverses the logic of its argument.

OR Returns TRUE if any argument is TRUE.
TRUE Returns the logical value TRUE.

LOOKUP & REFERENCE FUNCTIONS

ADDRESS Returns a reference in the form of text.
AREAS Returns the number of areas in a multiple selection.
CHOOSE Chooses a value from a list of values, based on index
number.
COLUMN Returns the column number of a reference.
COLUMNS Returns the number of columns in a reference.
HLOOKUP Finds the value in the first row of an array that is equal
to or less than lookup_value. Returns the associated
value in the same column, as determined by offsetjnum.
INDEX Returns a value from a reference or array, using a
specified index.
INDIRECT Returns a reference specified by a text value.
LOOKUP Looks up values in an array.
MATCH Looks up a value in an array and returns its relative
position.
OFFSET Returns a reference offset from a base reference by
specified number of rows and columns.
ROW Returns the row number of a reference.
ROWS Returns the number of rows in a reference.
TRANSPOSE Returns the transpose of an array.
VLOOKUP Finds the value in the first column of an array that is
equal to or less than lookup_value. Returns the
associated value in the same row, as determined by
offset num.

MATH& TRIG FUNCTIONS

ABS Returns the absolute value of a number.
ACOS Returns the angle corresponding to a cosine value.
ACOSH Returns the inverse hyperbolic cosine of a number.
ASIN Returns the angle corresponding to a sine value.
ASINH Returns the inverse hyperbolic sine of a number.
ATAN Returns the angle corresponding to a tangent value.
ATAN2 Returns the angle defined by a pair of x- and y
coordinates
ATANH Returns the inverse hyperbolic tangent of a number.
COS Returns the cosine of a given angle.
COSH Returns the hyperbolic cosine of a number.
COUNTIF Returns the number of non-blank cells within a range
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that meet the given criteria.

DEGREES Converts a value in radians to degrees.
EXP Returns the value of e raised to the power number.
FACT Returns the factorial of a number, i. e., 1*2*3*...
number.
INT Rounds a number down to the nearest integer.
LN Returns the base-e logarithm of a number.
LOG Returns the logarithm of a number to the specified base.
LOG10 Returns the base-10 logarithm of a number.
MDETERM Returns the determinant of an array.
MINVERSE Returns the inverse of a matrix.
MMULT Returns the product of two matrices.
MOD Returns the remainder of the division of number by
divisor.
MROUND Returns a number down to the nearest specified level.
PI Returns n.
PRODUCT Returns the product of the specified arguments.
RADIANS Converts an angle in degrees to radians.
RAND Returns a random number between 0 and 1.
RANDBETWEEN Returns a random number within a specified range.
ROMAN Converts an Arabic number to Roman numerals.
ROUND Rounds a number to a specified number of digits.
ROUNDDOWN Rounds a number down.
ROUNDUP Rounds a number up.
SIGN Returns the sign of a number.
SIN Returns the sine of a given angle.
SINH Returns the hyperbolic sine of a number.
SQRT Returns the square root of a number.
SUM Returns the sum of all the numbers in a range.
SUMIF Returns the sum of all the numbers in a range that
satisfy the specified criteria.
SUMIFS Returns the sum of the cells specified by multiple
criteria (Excel 2007/2010 only).
SUMPRODUC
T Returns the sum of the products of corresponding array
components.
SUMSQ Returns the sum of the squares of arguments.
TAN Returns the tangent of a given angle.
TANH Returns the hyperbolic tangent of a number.
TRUNC Truncates a number.
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STATISTICAL FUNCTIONS
AVEDEV Returns the average absolute deviation of data points
from the mean.
AVERAGE Returns the average of all the numbers in a range.
AVERAGEIF Returns the average of all values in a range that satisfy a
specified criterion (Excel 2007/2010 only).
AVERAGEIFS Returns the average of all values in a range that satisfy
multiple criteria (Excel 2007/2010 only).
CORREL Returns the correlation coefficient between two data
sets.
COUNT Returns the number of numbers in a range.
COUNTA Returns the number of non-blank values in a range.
COUNTIF Returns the number of non-blank values in a range
within a range that meet a specified criterion.
COUNTIFS Returns the number of non-blank values in a range
within a range that satisfy multiple criteria (Excel
2007/2010 only).
INTERCEPT Returns the intercept of the linear regression line
y = mx + b.
LARGE Returns the Ath largest value in a list of values.
LINEST Returns the parameters of multiple linear regression.
MAX Returns the maximum value in a list of arguments.
MEDIAN Returns the median value in a list of arguments.
MIN Returns the minimum value in a list of arguments.
RSQ Returns the square of the correlation coefficient.
SLOPE Returns the slope of the linear regression line
y = mx + b.
SMALL Returns the &th smallest value in a list of values.
STDEV Returns the standard deviation of a sample.
VAR Returns the variance of a sample.

TEXT FUNCTIONS
CHAR Returns the character corresponding to the character
code number.
CLEAN Removes all non-printable characters from a text string.
CODE Returns the numeric code corresponding to a character.
CONCATENATE Concatenates text values into a single text string.
DOLLAR Converts a number to a text value in currency format.
EXACT Compares two text strings; returns TRUE if they are the
same.
FIND Returns the position at which one text string occurs
within another text string.
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FIXED Rounds a number to the specified number of decimal

places and returns the result as text.
LEFT Returns the specified number of characters from a text
string, beginning at the left.
LEN Returns the number of characters in a text string.
LOWER Converts a text string to lowercase.
MID Returns the specified number of characters from a text
string, beginning at the specified position.
PROPER Capitalizes the first letter in each word of a text string.
REPLACE Replaces characters at a specified position within a text
string.
REPT Repeats a text value a specified number of times.
RIGHT Returns the specified number of characters from a text
string, beginning at the right.
SEARCH Finds the position of a text value within a text string.
SUBSTITUTE Finds and substitutes characters within a text string.
T Converts a value to text. Excel usually does this
automatically when necessary.
TEXT Formats a number and returns it as text.
TRIM Removes spaces from a text string, except for single
spaces between words.
UPPER Converts a text string to uppercase.
VALUE Converts a text argument to a number. Excel usually
does this automatically when necessary.