Tuesday 15 April 2014

Function Wizard & Cell Reference




THE FUNCTION WIZARD

There are two ways to insert a function in excel spreadsheet:
1-By typing directly into the cell or in fourmula bar.
2-By using the INSERT FUNCTION option.


There are many ways to accessing the INSERT FUNCTION dialog box:
1-Go to formulas menu and click on INSERT FUNCTION option.
2-Just click on INSERT FUNCTION(fx) icon on formula bar.
3-Press SHIFT+F3





CELL REFERENCES



This is one of the most important thing everyone should know about this. 

Three type of cell references are:
1-Relative

In relative reference, column and row numbers change as it copied to other
cell respectively.
2-Absolute

In absolute reference, column and row numbers doesn't change wherever it
copied in the spreadsheet.
3-Mixed


Mixed reference is the combination of Relative and Absolute



Reference
Cell
Range
Relative
A4
A4:B5
Absolute
$A$4
$A$4:$B$5
Mixed
$A4 or A$4
$A4:B$5



$(Dollar) symbol denotes that the particular cell or range is freezed so no
matter where it is copied the values will remain same.
Two ways to freeze cell or range:
1-By directly typing the $ (Dollar) symbol.
2-By press F4

First time when anyone press F4 it freeze both the column and row, second
time only row and third time only column.

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