If you are relatively new to using Excel to create spreadsheets, you probably know that you have to be able to use a variety of formulas in order to assemble your spreadsheet and to make it work for you. What you may not know the extent of this list of Excel formulas in 2007. The number of formulas used in Excel 2007 is well over 300 and is not likely to be something that you will ever have to remember fully.
As you work with this list of Excel 2007 formulas, you will come to be very familiar with the ones that you use on a regular basis. The rest you may want to keep on a cheat sheet, just for those occasions when you are working outside of your usual comfort zone. This way you will always have fast access to them without the need to spend time looking them up online or in one of those monstrous tomes that have been printed.
The list of formulas is broken up into several different groups that can be easily identified by their area of function. These groups include, but are not limited to: Add-in and Automation functions, Cube, Date and Time, Engineering, Financial, Information, Logical, Lookup and Reference, Math, Statistics and Text. If you do not use the right formula or function within a cell on your spreadsheet, you are going to get an error message or incorrect results.
You can also find the entire list of Excel formulas for 2007 in drop down lists under the Formula button at the top of your spreadsheet. You click on the formulas button and then select the category you need a formula for. If you have the appropriate cell highlighted, you can then click on the formula you want to use and it will be entered into the highlighted cell and where necessary pull up a dialog box for you to fill out any required information.
By using the drop down list of formulas in Excel 2007, you have the fastest access to the formulas that you are going to need in the creation of your spreadsheets. You will find that when you need to put together multiple formulas, you are going to have to enter the individual formulas by hand in order to ensure that they all follow the appropriate syntax. The more you have access to the lists of formulas, the easier you will find it put together fully functional spreadsheets.
