Let’s say the contents of cells a1, a2, b1, and b2 are 0, 0, a, and 0 respectively. what will be the output of the following formula?

The tutorial explains what ISNUMBER in Excel is and provides examples of basic and advanced uses. The concept of the ISNUMBER function in Excel is very simple - it just checks whether a given value is a number or not. An important point here is that the practical uses of the function go far beyond its basic concept, especially when combined with other functions within larger formulas. • • • • • • • • Excel ISNUMBER function The ISNUMBER function in Excel checks if a cell contains a numerical value or not. It belongs to the group of IS functions. The function is available in all versions of Excel for Office 365, Excel 2019, Excel 2016, Excel 2013, Excel 2010, Excel 2007 and lower. The ISNUMBER syntax requires just one argument: =ISNUMBER(value) Where value is the value you want to test. Usually, it is represented by a cell reference, but you can also supply a real value or nest another function inside ISNUMBER to check the result. If value is numeric, the function returns TRUE. For anything else (text values, errors, blanks) ISNUMBER returns FALSE. As an example, let's test values in cells A2 through A6, and we will find out that the first 3 values are numbers and the last two are text: 2 things you should know about ISNUMBER function in Excel There are a couple of interesting points to note here: • In internal Excel representation, dates and times are numeric values, so the ISNUMBER formula returns TRUE for them (please see B3 and B4 in the screenshot above). • For numbers...

I think another way of explaining what INDIRECT does is this way: It turns text into a range, if that range is valid. E.g. If you have text A1, it'll reference to A1. If you have text C2:C100, you'll get this as range. Now, one of the most common ways in excel to generate text in the form of ranges is to concatenate. So that if you concatenate A and 1 ( CONCATENATE("A","1")), you get A1. And you can use a reference in this concatentate. Let's say that cell B1 contains 1. =CONCATENATE("A",B1) gives the text A1. Hence, to get the cell A1, you would be able to use: =INDIRECT(CONCATENATE("A",B1)) Except that the CONCATENATE() function now is a bit long, but don't fret! You can use &: =INDIRECT("A"&B1) Works just as well. If you have something more complex like you have C in A1 and 32 in B1, to refer to cell C32, you can do: =INDIRECT(A1&B1) Which gives =INDIRECT("C"&"32"), =INDIRECT("C32") and finally =C32 `INDIRECT' is the function you need to use. From the Syntax: INDIRECT(Ref; A1) Ref represents a reference to a cell or an area (in text form) for which to return the contents. A1 (optional) - if set to 0, the R1C1 notation is used. If this parameter is absent or set to another value than 0, the A1 notation is used. Example =INDIRECT(A1) equals 100 if A1 contains C108 as a reference and cell C108 contains a value of 100. =SUM(INDIRECT("a1:" & ADDRESS(1;3))) totals the cells in the area of A1 up to the cell with the address defined by row 1 and column 3. This means that area A...

Excel for Microsoft 365 Excel for Microsoft 365 for Mac Excel for the web Excel 2021 Excel 2021 for Mac Excel 2019 Excel 2019 for Mac Excel 2016 Excel 2016 for Mac Excel 2013 Excel for iPad Excel for iPhone Excel for Android tablets Excel 2010 Excel 2007 Excel for Mac 2011 Excel for Android phones Excel Starter 2010 The CELL function returns information about the formatting, location, or contents of a cell. For example, if you want to verify that a cell contains a numeric value instead of text before you perform a calculation on it, you can use the following formula: =IF(CELL("type",A1)="v",A1*2,0) This formula calculates A1*2 only if cell A1 contains a numeric value, and returns 0 if A1 contains text or is blank. Note: Formulas that use CELL have language-specific argument values and will return errors if calculated using a different language version of Excel. For example, if you create a formula containing CELL while using the Czech version of Excel, that formula will return an error if the workbook is opened using the French version. If it is important for others to open your workbook using different language versions of Excel, consider either using alternative functions or allowing others to save local copies in which they revise the CELL arguments to match their language. Syntax CELL(info_type, [reference]) The CELL function syntax has the following arguments: Argument Description info_type Required A text value that specifies what type of cell information you want to...

How to shade a cell based on another cell value in Excel? Supposing you want to shade a cell (says A1) with a certain background color if cell B4 meets the criteria such as has a certain value or the value is greater or less than a specific number. What would you do? This article will show you the method. Shade a cell based on another cell value with Conditional Formatting You can do as follows to shade a cell based on another cell value in Excel. 1. Select the cell (says A1) you want to shade based on another cell value, then click Conditional Formatting> New Rule under the Home tab. 2. In the New Formatting Rule dialog box, you need to: • 2.1 Select Use a formula to determine which cells to format option in the Select a Rule Type box; • 2.2 If you want to shade cell A1 when value of B4 is greater than 500, then enter formula =$B4>500 into the Format values where this formula is true box; Tips: if you want to shade cell A1 when B4 has a certain value such as “test”, the use this formula =$B4=“test”. You can change the variable in the formula based on your needs. • 2.3 Click the Format button to specify a background color; • 2.4 Click the OK button when it returns to the New Formatting Rule dialog box. See screenshot: Then you can see the specified cell is shaded based on the value of another cell as below screenshot shown. Related articles: • How might i format column N to be shaded according to value in column L? (Eg higher red, lower blue, equals green, no value - no sh...

Excel's conditional formatting feature typically allows you to set the format of a cell based upon its contents, and allows you to define all sorts of rules upon which to do this. This is great, but what if you want the cell's format to be based upon the contents of a different cell (or cells)? A typical use for this might be for a traffic light graphic giving a quick visual aid to understanding a set of numbers. Fortunately Excel provides a relatively straight-forward way of doing this. The answer is to use the formula option in Conditional Formatting. Highlight the cell, or range of cells, that the conditional formatting is to be applied to. Select Conditional Formatting from the Home ribbon and select "New rule". Then select the bottom option from the list - "Use a formula to determine which cells to format": You can then type a formula into the box that will be used as the criteria to determine whether each cell is to be formatted, or not. The criteria should start with an "=" sign and then follow the same rules as the condition argument of an Where you are applying the conditional formatting to more than one cell, the criteria should be written from the perspective of the top left cell of the range being formatted. This becomes important in how it will treat relative cell references. Cell references can be made absolute using Once you are happy with your criteria, click the Format button and set the formatting that you want to apply should the criteria be met. Some ex...

When you want to format a cell based on the value of a different cell, for example to format a report row based on a single column’s value, you can use the conditional formatting feature to create a formatting formula. This post explores the details of formatting a cell or range based on the value in another cell. Objective Here’s an example that will allow us to put this feature into context. Let’s say that you have an invoice listing and your objective is to identify the open invoices. Here is a screenshot of our sample invoice listing: Since this is Excel, there are many ways to accomplish any given task. One way to identify the open invoices is to simply sort the list by the Status column so that the open invoices appear in a group. Another way is to filter the listing to show only the open invoices. These techniques are fairly straightforward, so, let’s explore another method. We’ll highlight the transaction rows with cell formatting…or, more precisely, a conditional formatting formula. Video Conditional Formatting Narrative Using conditional formatting, it would be pretty easy to highlight just the Status column. It would be simple because the cells we are formatting are the same cells that have the values to evaluate. That is, we would be formatting a cell based on the value within that cell. To perform this, we could simply highlight the Status column, and the use the following Ribbon command: • Home > Conditional Formatting > Cell Rules > Equal To In the Equal To ...

Lesson 5: Cell Basics /en/excel2016/saving-and-sharing-workbooks/content/ Introduction Whenever you work with Excel, you'll enter information—or content—into cells. Cells are the basic building blocks of a worksheet. You'll need to learn the basics of cells and cell content to calculate, analyze, and organize data in Excel. Optional: Download our Watch the video below to learn more about the basics of working with cells. Understanding cells Every worksheet is made up of thousands of rectangles, which are called cells. A cell is the intersection of a row and a column—in other words, where a row and column meet. Columns are identified by letters (A, B, C), while rows are identified by numbers (1, 2, 3). Each cell has its own name—or cell address—based on its column and row. In the example below, the selected cell intersects column C and row 5, so the cell address is C5. Note that the cell address also appears in the Name box in the top-left corner, and that a cell's column and row headings are highlighted when the cell is selected. You can also select multiple cells at the same time. A group of cells is known as a cell range. Rather than a single cell address, you will refer to a cell range using the cell addresses of the first and last cells in the cell range, separated by a colon. For example, a cell range that included cells A1, A2, A3, A4, and A5 would be written as A1:A5. Take a look at the different cell ranges below: • Cell range A1:A8 • Cell range A1:F1 If the column...

Correct Answer - Option 1 : 36 Given, the equation in cell B2 is = A2 + B1. Find value of B3 ? Value of A2 = 20 Value of B1 = 16 Hence, value of B2 will be = 20 + 16 = 36 Now, the equation is then copied and pasted to cells B3, B4 and B5. Therefore, the value will be exactly same as B2, which is 36 Hence, the correct option is 1. Categories • • (31.9k) • (8.8k) • (764k) • (248k) • (2.9k) • (5.2k) • (664) • (121k) • (72.1k) • (3.8k) • (19.6k) • (1.4k) • (14.2k) • (12.5k) • (9.3k) • (7.7k) • (3.9k) • (6.7k) • (63.8k) • (26.6k) • (23.7k) • (14.6k) • (25.7k) • (530) • (84) • (765) • (49.1k) • (63.8k) • (1.8k) • (59.3k) • (24.5k)

In this post, you’ll learn how to set default values for cells in Google Sheets, without using Google Apps Script code. In the Sheet below, the cells in column B have default values of 100, 25, and 10 respectively. If a user types in a value (e.g. 200) it overwrites the default value. If a user deletes whatever value is in the cell already, then the default value of 100 is displayed again. Setting Default Values For Cells In Google Sheets The key to make this technique work is to use In a blank Sheet, write the value “Input” in cell A1. In cell B1, type this formula: = Your Sheet will look like this: Try typing 200 in cell C1, over the top of the 100. Cell C1 will show the 200, but cell B1 now displays a Now, delete the value you just typed in cell C1. The error message disappears and the default value of 100 is displayed again. Finally, hide column B so that the #REF! error is never seen, and you have a default value of 100 set for cell C1. 🎩 Hat tip to my friend Advanced Default Values Without Hidden Column The method above suffers from one drawback though: it necessitates a hidden column. However, we can use a clever circular formula to address this. In a new blank Sheet, add this formula in cell A1: =IF(ISBLANK( B1),, "Input") Initially, you may see this error message about a circular error (i.e. a formula that references itself): That is a problem, but we fix it by switching on iterative calculations and restricting them to a single iteration from the menu: File > Set...