Where DetectLanguage() can mislead is with words which have different meaning in various languages or there’s words from more than one language. The results in our ‘mixed language’ tests have changed. The two “Thanks Danke” tests returned German (de) in early versions of DetectLanguage(...
Available from Excel 2003. Let’s put this function to work in some examples. Example 1 – Converting Text Format to Number Format Sometimes, whether by mistake or deliberately, a number can be formatted as a text value, meaning generic numeric operations can’t be performed on it. We can ...
Names in Excel are a paradoxical thing: being one of the most useful features, they are often considered pointless or nerdy. The reason is that very few users understand the essence of Excel names. This tutorial will not only teach you how to create a named range in Excel, but will also...
This article describes the CONFIDENCE function in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and in Microsoft Office Excel 2007, illustrates how the function is used, and compares the results of the function for Excel 2003 and for Excel 2007 with the results of CONFIDENCE in earlier ve...
To create a line break, use the Excel CHAR function in the formula. This is like typing Alt+Enter in a cell that contains text. To combine the first and last names in row 2, with a line break between them, I used this formula in cell C2:...
Excel AverageIF empty cells #DIV/0! error: The function will return a #DIV/0! error if all the cells selected as range fail to meet the criteria, meaning there are no values to average. Excel AverageIF error Specific Range: The function requires a specific range of cells as an argument...
The INDIRECT function transforms the string into a name that Excel can understand, and you put it in thetable_arrayargument of VLOOKUP: =VLOOKUP($A2, INDIRECT(B$1&"_Sales"), 2, FALSE) The above formula goes to B2, and then you copy it down and to the right. ...
For the meaning of the different date formats, refer to the heading “date formats of Excel” given after example #4 of this article. Note 2:The TEXT function is categorized as a Text/String function of Excel. The TEXT function is available in all versions of Excel. ...
The VLOOKUPfunctionin Excel is used to find something in a table. If you have rows of data organized by column headings, VLOOKUP can be used to locate a value using the column. When you do a VLOOKUP, you're telling Excel to first locate the row that contains the data you want to ret...
“type” → The timing of the payments was stated earlier as being due at the end of each month, meaning that we can omit it since the default setting in Excel is already set to the end of the period. 4. Excel PPMT Calculation Example Given the assumptions from the prior steps, we ...