The official description of what it does: “Looks for a value in the leftmost column of a table, and then returns a value in the same row from a column you specify…”. VLOOKUPįormula: =VLOOKUP (lookup_value, table_array, col_index_num, range_lookup)īy far my most used formula. This gives us “Excel” from “I love Excel” 7. I had it look at cell A1 and grab the first 6 characters from the right. I used the RIGHT formula to get the last word. This gives us just the word “love” from “I love Excel” I had it look in cell A1, start at character 3, and grab 5 characters after that. I used the MID formula to get the middle word. This gave us the word “I” from “I love Excel” I had it look in cell A1 and grab only the 1st character from the left. I used the LEFT formula to get the first word. You tell the MID formula where to start with the start_number and then it grabs the specified number of characters to the right of the start_number. RIGHT gives you the number of characters from the right of the text string, LEFT gives you the number of characters from the left, and MID gives you the specified number of characters from the middle of the word. These formulas return the specified number of characters from a text string. (Note: In all of these formulas, wherever it says “text” you can use a cell reference as well) RIGHT, LEFT, MIDįormulas: = RIGHT (text, number of characters), =LEFT (text, number of characters), =MID (text, start number, number of characters). Check out the character count difference with and without the TRIM formula. The TRIM formula removes that extra space. I added in an extra space behind “I Love Excel”. This can wreak havoc if you are trying to compare using IF statements or VLOOKUP’s. I’ve found this formula to be extremely useful because I’ve often run into situations where you pull data from a database and for some reason extra spaces are put in behind or in front of legitimate data. Gets rid of any space in a cell, except for single spaces between words. Notice the difference in the formula results: 10 characters without spaces in between the words, 12 with spaces between the words. The LEN formula counts the number of characters in a cell. It counts the number of non-empty cells no matter the data type. The COUNTA Formula works with all data types. It will count cells that have numbers and/or any other characters in them. COUNTAĬounts the number of non-empty cells in a range. **Learn more about the COUNT function in this on-demand, online course. It only counts the cells where there are numbers. This formula only works with numbers though: The count formula counts the number of cells in a range that have numbers in them. You can have numbers in there separated by commas and it will add them together for you, you can have cell references and as long as there are numbers in those cells it will add them together for you, or you can have a range of cells with a colon in between the 2 cells, and it will add the numbers in all the cells in the range. You can use cell references as well in this formula. It allows you to add 2 or more numbers together. The SUM formula does exactly what you would expect. Excel Formulas You Should Definitely Know: 1.
There are many ways to use Excel formulas to decrease the amount of time you spend in Excel and increase the accuracy of your data and your reports. Don’t waste any more hours in Microsoft Excel doing things manually.
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