MINI EXCEL FUNCTION GUIDE

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DATE/TIME FUNCTIONS
F U N C T I O N D E S C R I P T I O N

TODAY Returns the current date.

NOW Returns the current date and time.

DATEDIF Calculates the number of days, months, or years between two dates based on the specified unit.

EDATE Calculates the date that’s a specified number of months from a given start date.

DAYS Calculates the number of days between two dates.

TEXT FUNCTIONS
F U N C T I O N D E S C R I P T I O N

LEFT Extracts a specified number of characters from the left of the text string.

RIGHT Extracts a specified number of characters from the right of the text string.

MID Extracts a specified number of characters from the middle of the text string.

UPPER Reformats all the letters of a text string to upper case.

LOWER Reformats all the letters of a text string to lower case.

CONCAT Combines multiple values together into one value.

Checks to see if two cells equal each other. Returns TRUE if the cells equal each other and FALSE if the
EXACT cells do not equal each other.

MATH/STAT FUNCTIONS
F U N C T I O N D E S C R I P T I O N

ROUND Rounds a number to a specified number of digits.

MIN Returns the minimum value of a set of numeric values.

MAX Returns the maximum value of a set of numeric values.

COUNTA Counts the number of values that contain any type of data (non-blank cells).

AVERAGE Calculates the average of numeric values.

SUM Adds numeric values together.

Sums the cells within a range that meet a certain criteria. If a cell does not meet the criteria, it'll be
SUMIF excluded from the calculation.

LOOKUP FUNCTIONS
F U N C T I O N D E S C R I P T I O N

INDEX Looks up the position of a cell in an array and returns the cell's contents.

MATCH Looks up a value in an array and returns the position of the value within the array.

Looks up a value in an array and returns the position of the value within the array with more dynamic
XMATCH search abilities.
VLOOKUP Looks up a value in the first column of an array vertically and returns a corresponding value to the right.

HLOOKUP Looks up a value in the first row horizontally in an array of data and returns a corresponding value below.

XLOOKUP Looks up a value in an array and returns a corresponding value in another array.

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