11. FREQUENTLY USED FUNCTIONS OF MS EXCEL
• One of the lookup and reference
functions, when you need to find things
in a table or a range by row. For
example, look up a price of an
automotive part by the part number.
•=VLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array,
col_index_num,{range_value})
VLOOKUP
12. • HLOOKUP stands for Horizontal Lookup
and can be used to retrieve information
from a table by searching a row for the
matching data and outputting from the
corresponding column.
• =HLOOKUP(value to look up, table area,
row number)
HLOOKUP
13. •A pivot table allows you to extract the
significance from a large, detailed data set.
•Pivot tables are used in data processing and are
found in data visualization programs such
as spreadsheets or business intelligence software.
Such programs can automatically sort, count, total
or average the data stored in one table or
spreadsheet, displaying the results in a second
table — the pivot table — showing the
summarized data.
PIVOT TABLE
14. • The IF function can perform a logical test
and return one value for a TRUE result,
and another for a FALSE result.
• =IF (logical_test, [value_if_true],
[value_if_false])
IF