List of Top 10 Basic Excel Formulas & Functions

 

Basic Excel Formulas

List of Top 10 Basic Excel Formulas & Functions

Here is the list of Top 10 Basic Formulas & Functions in Excel.

  1. SUM
  2. COUNT
  3. COUNTA
  4. COUNTBLANK
  5. AVERAGE
  6. MIN Excel
  7. MAX Excel
  8. LEN Excel
  9. TRIM Excel
  10. IF Excel

Now let us discuss each of them in detail –

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Basic Excel Functions

#1SUM in Excel

This Basic Excel Formula is used to get the sum of the value in one or more cells or Range.

Basic Sum Function Formula

Example

=SUM(A1:A5) 

Basic Sum Function Example 1

Result = 41 (See Image below)

Basic Sum Function Example 1-1

#2COUNT Excel Function

This Basic Excel Function is used to Count the numeric value in one or more cells or Range.

Basic Count Formula

Example

=COUNT(A1:A5)

Basic Count Example 2

Result = 4 (This will exclude Cell A3 since this formula calculate only Numeric value. See Image below)

Basic Count Example 2-1

#3COUNTA in Excel

This formula is used to count the value in one or more cells (This will count the cells irrespective of Number or Text value)

Basic COUNTA Formula

Example

=COUNTA(A1:A5)

Basic COUNTA Example 3

Result = 5 (This will Include Cell A3 since this formula calculate both Text and Numeric value. See Image below)

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Basic COUNTA Example 3-1

#4COUNTBLANK in Excel

This Excel Basic function is used to count the blank value in the Range. (Note: Only Space in a cell will not be considered as a blank cell).

Basic COUNTBLANK Formula

Example

=COUNTBLANK(A1:A5)

Basic COUNTBLANK Example 4

Result = 2 (This will calculate the number of blank cell in Range. See Image below)

Basic COUNTBLANK Example 4-1

#5AVERAGE in Excel

This basic formula in excel is used to get the average of the value in one or more cells or Range.

Basic Average Formula

Example

=AVERAGE(A1:A5) 

Basic Average Example 5

Result = 4 (See Image below)

Basic Average Example 5-1

#6MIN Formula in Excel

This excel basic function is used to get the minimum value in cells or Range.

Basic Min Formula

Example

=MIN(A1:A5). Result = 2 (See Image below)

Basic Min Example 6

Basic Min Example 6-1

#7MAX Formula in Excel

This basic excel function is used to get the maximum value in cells or Range.

Basic Max Formula

Example

=MAX(A1:A5)

Basic Max Example 7

Result = 9 (See Image below)

Basic Max Example 7-1

#8LEN in Excel

This basic function excel is used to calculate the number of characters in a cell or Text.

Basic Len Formula

Example

=LEN(A1)

Basic Len Example 8

Cell A1 value is Shivam, which has 6 Character length. So Result would be 6 (See Image below)

Basic Len Example 8-1

#9TRIM in Excel

This basic excel function is used to remove unnecessary space in a cell or Text.

SYNTAX: TRIM(TEXT)

Basic Trim Formula

Example

=TRIM(A1)

Basic Trim Example 9

Cell A1 has two spaces between first name, middle name, and last name. This function will remove extra space to give the result. (See Image below)

Basic Trim Example 9-1

#10IF in Excel

IF function is used to perform a logical test in excel.

Basic IF Formula

Example

=IF(A1>33,”P”,”F”). A value in Cell A1 is 50, and a logical test is if the value is greater than 33, then the result would be P else the result would be F.

Basic IF Example 10

Since the value 50 is greater than 33, the result would be P. (See Image below)

Basic IF Example 10-1

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