Microsoft Excel: Excel Beginner Basics, Formulas & Functions

It looks like you've listed a comprehensive range of functions from different categories in Microsoft Excel. Here's a brief explanation of each category and some of the functions within them:

Logical Functions

• AND: Returns TRUE if all parameters are TRUE, otherwise returns FALSE.
• IF: Performs a logical test and returns one value if the test is TRUE, and another if the test is FALSE.
• OR: Returns TRUE if at least one of the conditions you set up in the function is true.
• IFS: Evaluates multiple Conditional logic statements for a single result.
• Nested IF: Multiple IF functions within other IF functions to create complex logical tests.
• ISEVEN and ISODD: Check if a number is even or odd, respectively.
• ISBLANK, ISFORMULA: Determine if a cell is blank or contains a formula.
• IFERROR, ISERROR: Handle errors in formulas.

Statistical Functions

• AVERAGE: Calculates the average (mean) of the numbers specified by your arguments.
• MEDIAN: Returns the middle value when you sort and remove duplicate values from a set of numbers.
• MODE: Finds the most frequently occurring value in a data set.
• COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTBLANK: Count cells within a range that contain numbers, all cells, or non-empty cells, respectively.
• MAX, MIN: Find the maximum and minimum values in a given dataset.

Text Functions

• UPPER, LOWER, PROPER: Change the case of text strings (uppercase, lowercase, titlecase).
• LEN: Returns the number of characters in a string or text string.
• TRIM: Removes all spaces from text except for single spaces between words.
• CONCATENATE, TEXTJOIN (and the ampersand & for concatenation): Combine two or more text strings into one.
• LEFT, RIGHT, MID: Extract substrings from a specified string.
• TEXTBEFORE, TEXTAFTER: Return the part of the text string that appears before or after specified characters.
• TEXT: Convert a number to text, with options for formatting and leading zeros.
• TYPE: Determine whether a given value is text, an error value, or logical/numeric data.
• VALUE: Convert text representing a general or discrete number to its number value.

Date & Time Functions

• TODAY: Returns the serial number of the date that corresponds to the current date.
• MONTH, DAY, YEAR: Extract the month, day, and year from a date.
• WEEKDAY: Returns the day of the week for the first cell in a range as a number between 1 and 7 (Sunday=1, Saturday=7).
• DAYS: Calculate the number of days between two dates.
• EOMONTH: Return the last day of the month for a specified year or month.
• NOW, HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND: Return serial numbers representing the current date and time, hour, minute, and second, respectively.

Lookup Functions

• XLOOKUP: Looks up a value in the first column of a table and returns a value in the same row from a specified column.
• UNIQUE: Returns one item from each set of unique items within a range.
• TRANSPOSE: Transpose the data in a range or array, effectively switching rows and columns.
• VSTACK, HSTACK: Vertically or horizontally stack ranges or arrays into an array.

Each of these functions plays a crucial role in Excel's powerful feature set, allowing users to perform complex analyses, manipulate text, manage dates and times, and retrieve data from various sources. Whether you're a business analyst, a financial planner, or just someone who loves working with data, understanding how to use these functions will greatly enhance your capabilities within Excel.