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Part II: Using Functions in Your <strong>Formula</strong>s<br />

Text functions<br />

The text functions enable you to manipulate text strings in formulas. For example, you can use<br />

the MID function to extract any number of characters beginning at any character position. Other<br />

functions enable you to change the case of text (convert to uppercase, for example).<br />

Logical functions<br />

This category consists of only seven functions that enable you to test a condition (for logical<br />

TRUE or FALSE). You will find the IF function very useful because it gives your formulas simple<br />

decision-making capabilities.<br />

Information functions<br />

The functions in this category help you determine the type of data stored within a cell. For example,<br />

the ISTEXT function returns TRUE if a cell reference contains text. Or you can use the<br />

ISBLANK function to determine whether a cell is empty. The CELL function returns lots of potentially<br />

useful information about a particular cell.<br />

User-defined functions<br />

Functions that appear in this category are custom worksheet functions created by using VBA.<br />

These functions can operate just like Excel’s built-in functions. One difference, however, is that<br />

custom functions do not always display a description of each argument in the Paste Function dialog<br />

box. It’s up to the programmer to provide these descriptions. Also, user-defined functions do<br />

not convert to uppercase when you enter them.<br />

Engineering functions<br />

The functions in this category can prove useful for engineering applications. They enable you to<br />

work with complex numbers and to perform conversions between various numbering and measurement<br />

systems.<br />

Cube functions<br />

The functions in this category allow you to manipulate data that is part of an OLAP data cube.<br />

Compatibility functions<br />

The Compatibility category is new to Excel 2010. Functions in this category are statistical functions<br />

that have been replaced with more accurate functions. However, they are still available for<br />

situations in which you need to share your workbook with those who don’t have Excel 2010.

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