IMPORTANT THINGS TO TAKE NOTE:

 ANY TEXTUAL VALUE (OTHER THAN NUMERICAL/CELL NAME) IN A FUNCTION/FORMULA BAR SHOULD
INCLUDE WITH ” “.
 WHEN COPY & PASTE A FUNCTION OR FORMULA, IT IS IMPORTANT TO INCLUDE ANY SPECIFIC CELL NAME
WITH $ SYMBOL SO THAT IT WILL NOT BE ALTERED EASILY.
 SOME FUNCTIONS CAN BE USED IN TERMS OF RANGE LIKE A1:B12 OR INSTEAD LIKE A1, A2, A3.
 YOU CAN ALSO ADD IN FORMULA BAR LIKE ="Today's date is: "&TEXT(A1,"dd-mm-yyyy"). NOTE THAT
‘SYMBOL &’ JOINS BOTH OR MORE VALUES TOGETHERS IN THE FORMULA BAR
 CLICK ON ‘INSERT FUNCTION’, SPECIFY THE FUNCTION THAT YOU WANT TO USE AND THEN CLICK ‘HELP ON
THIS FUNCTION’ TO GET MORE INFORMATION ON THE FUNCTION THAT YOU SPECIFIED EARLIER.
 TO HIGHLIGHT AN ENTIRE TABLE IN EXCEL, CLICK ANYWHERE IN THE TABLE AND PRESS CTRL+A.

COMMON EXCEL FUNCTIONS:

1. SUM FUNCTION - YOU CAN USE EITHER IN TERMS OF RANGE LIKE A1:B12 OR INSTEAD LIKE A1, A2, A3.
2. AVERAGE FUNCTION – SUM FUNCTION DIVIDE BY NUMBER OF CELLS, YOU CAN USE IT SIMILARLY AS ABOVE
3. MAX AND MIN FUNCTION – SPECIFY THE LARGEST/SMALLEST NUMERICAL VALUE IN A RANGE OF CELLS
GIVEN, YOU CAN USE IT SIMILARLY AS SUM
4. COUNT AND COUNTA FUNCTION – SPECIFY/COUNT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CELLS WITH A NUMERICAL
VALUE (EXCLUDING TEXTUAL VALUE & BLANK CELL), COUNTA FUNCTION SPECIFY/COUNT THE TOTAL
NUMBER OF CELLS WITH BOTH NUMERICAL AND TEXTUAL VALUES (EXCLUDING BLANK CELL), YOU CAN USE
THEM SIMILARLY AS SUM
5. TRIM FUNCTION – REDUCE THE SPACE BTW TWO OR MORE VALUES (NUMERICAL/TEXTUAL) IN A SPECIFIC
CELL TO A SINGLE SPACE ONLY, TRIM FUNCTION OPERATES ON A SINGLE CELL ONLY
6. CONCATENATE FUNCTION – CANNOT BE USED IN TERMS OF RANGE OF CELLS BUT INSTEAD LIKE (A1, A2, A3),
ONLY WORKS ON CELLS WITH VALUES AND CAN COMBINE VALUES AT DIFFERENT CELLS INTO ONE CELL,
BLANK CELL IS EXCLUDED IN THIS FUNCTION, MAY INCLUDE “ “ IN THIS FUNCTION TO ADD A SINGLE SPACE
BETWEEN THE COMBINED VALUES IN A SINGLE CELL LIKE =CONCATENATE(B2, " ",C2)
7. PROPER FUNCTION – USED WHEN TEXTUAL VALUE IN A SPECIFIC CELL LOOKS JUMBLED WITH
CAPITALIZATIONS IN THE WRONG PLACE LIKE “intErestIng EnginEEring is greaT”, THIS FUNCTION OPERATES
ON A SINGLE CELL ONLY
8. AND & OR FUNCTION – AND CHECK WHETHER ALL ARGUMENTS ARE TRUE AND RETURNS THE WORD TRUE
IF THEY ALL ARE TRUE, OR CHECK WHETHER ANY OF THE ARGUMENTS ARE TRUE AND RETURNS THE WORD
FALSE ONLY IF ALL ARGUMENTS ARE FALSE
9. IF FUNCTION – IF CHECK WHETHER A CONDITION/LOGICAL TEST IS MET AND RETURNS A VALUE IF TRUE AND
ANOTHER VALUE IF FALSE
10. GOAL SEEK FUNCTION (WHAT IF ANALYSIS) – FUNCTION THAT SOLVES FOR A DESIRED OUTPUT BY
CHANGING AN ASSUMPTION THAT DRIVES IT AND IS BASED ON THE USE OF TRIAL AND ERROR APPROACH
TO BACK-SOLVING A SPECIFIC PROBLEM, THE CELL NAME WHOSE FINAL OUTPUT VALUE NEEDS TO BE SET
TO IT’S DESIRED OUTPUT VALUE MUST INCLUDE THE CELL NAME THAT DRIVES IT’S OUTPUT RESULT IN IT’S
FUNCTION, IT IS ALSO HIGHLY IMPORTANT TO KNOW THE CELL NAME THAT DRIVES IT BEFORE CHANGING IT
USING GOAL SEEK FUNCTION, CHANGING THAT CELL NAME MAY AFFECT AND CHANGE THE FINAL OUTPUT
VALUE TO DESIRED OUTPUT VALUE
11. VLOOKUP AND HLOOKUP FUNCTION – VLOOKUP CONTAINS 4 PARAMETERS (LOOKUP VALUE, TABLE ARRAY,
COLUMN INDEX NUMBER, TRUE/FALSE), FIRST PARAMETER WORKS ONLY ON FIRST LEFT COLUMN
(SPECIFIED TEXTUAL VALUE NEEDS TO INCLUDE WITH “ “ WHILE NUMERICAL/CELL NAME NO NEED),
SECOND PARAMETER HIGHLIGHT THE ENTIRE TABLE FOR THE RANGE OF CELLS, THIRD PARAMETER SPECIFY
THE COLUMN NUMBER WHERE THE VALUE/DATA IS LOCATED AT BEFORE DATA/VALUE CAN BE
DETERMINED AND FOR MULTIPLE COLUMNS CAN BE DONE AS {2,3,4,..} BEFORE HIGHLIGHTING AND PASTE
THE VLOOKUP FUNCTION, FOURTH PARAMETER STATES THAT TRUE GIVES APPROXIMATE MATCH AND
FALSE GIVES EXACT MATCH, VLOOKUP FUNCTION CAN BE USED WHEN THE TABLE IS ON ANOTHER
SHEET/WORKBOOK HLOOKUP WORKS SIMILARLY AS VLOOKUP BUT IS HORIZONTAL INSTEAD (FIRST
PARAMETER WORKS ONLY ON FIRST TOP ROW)
12. CHOOSE FUNCTION – CHOOSE A VALUE TO PERFORM FROM A LIST OF VALUES BASED ON INDEX NUMBER,
CONTAINS 3 PARAMETERS (GIVEN INDEX NUMBER, VALUE 1, VALUE 2, …), GIVEN INDEX NUMBER MUST BE
NUMERICAL VALUE BETWEEN 1 AND 254 AND MUST BE WITHIN THE RANGE IF CHOOSE (2, RED, BLUE,
GREEN) RETURNS BLUE SINCE BLUE IS THE 2 ND VALUE LISTED, VALUE 1 IS THE FIRST VALUE FROM WHICH TO
CHOOSE IN THIS CASE IS RED SO IF INDEX NUMBER IS 1 CHOOSE RETURNS VALUE 1
13. CONVERT FUNCTION – CONVERTS A NUMBER IN ONE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM TO ANOTHER (POUNDS INTO
KILOGRAMS, FEET INTO METERS), CONTAINS 3 PARAMETERS (NUMERICAL VALUE TO BE CONVERTED, THE
INITIAL UNIT, THE FINAL UNITFOR RESULT), FIRST PARAMETER MUST BE A NUMERICAL VALUE AND NOT
TEXTUAL VALUE (GIVES VALUE ERROR), IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO ABBREVIATED UNIT PREFIXES CAN BE
PREPENDED TO ANY METRIC EITHER FROM INITIAL UNIT OR TO FINAL UNIT, CONVERT FUNCTION IS CASE
SENSITIVE

14. TEXT FUNCTION – RETURNS NUMERIVAL VALUE IN A GIVEN NUMBER FORMAT AS TEXTUAL VALUE, FORMAT
TEXT CAN BE 0%, $0, 0.00E+00, dd-mm-yyyy BUT PLEASE MAKE SURE INCLUDE “ “, WORKS SIMILAR TO
FORMAT CELL
15. LEN FUNCTION – RETURNS THE LENGTH OF GIVEN TEXT STRING AS NUMBER OF CHARACTERS, ALSO COUNT
CHARACTERS IN NUMBERS BUT NUMBER FORMATTING IS NOT INCLUDED, Utah is 4 OR Salt Lake City is 14
(SPACE AND DOT ARE INCLUDED AS WELL) or $100 is 4
16. SIGN FUNCTION – RETURNS THE SIGN OF A NUMBER AS +1, -1, 0. +1 IF NUMBER IS POSITIVE, -1 IF NEGATIVE
AND 0 IF 0. PURPOSE OF THIS FUNCTION IS TO GET THE SIGN OF A NUMBER, ONLY WORKS ON CELL NAME
WITH NUMERICAL VALUE (NOT APPLICABLE FOR TEXTUAL VALUE OR RANGE OF CELLS WITH NUMERICAL
VALUES) AND CANNOT USE THEM SIMILARLY AS SUM
17. IFERROR FUNCTION – CATCHES ERRORS IN A FORMULA AND RETURNS AN ALTERNATIVE RESULT WHEN AN
ERROR IS DETECTED, CHECKS FOR THE FOLLOWING ERRORS: N/A, VALUE!, DIV/0!, NUM!, NAME?, NULL!, 2
 PARAMETERS (VALUE/FORMULA TO CHECK FOR AN ERROR, VALUE TO RETURN IF AN ERROR IS FOUND), CAN
BE USED IF YOU WANT TO EASILY HIDE THOSE ERRORS, FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE GO TO :
https://exceljet.net/excel-functions/excel-iferror-function OR https://support.microsoft.com/en-
us/office/iferror-function-c526fd07-caeb-47b8-8bb6-63f3e417f611?
ns=excel&version=90&syslcid=1033&uilcid=1033&appver=zxl900&helpid=xlmain11.chm60528&ui=en-
us&rs=en-us&ad=us
18. INDEX AND MATCH FUNCTIONS – INDEX FUNCTION GETS A VALUE AT A GIVEN LOCATION IN A RANGE OF
CELLS BASED ON NUMERIC POSITION, MATCH FUNCTION FIND THOSE POSITIONS AND IS NESTED EITHER
ONCE OR TWICE INSIDE INDEX FUNCTION. INDEX HAS 3 PARAMETERS (ARRAY/RANGE OF CELLS, ROW
NUMBER, COLUMN NUMBER) TO SPECIFY A VALUE IN A SPECIFIC CELL WHILE MATCH ALSO HAS 3
PARAMETERS (LOOKUP EXACT VALUE EITHER NUMERICAL/CELL NAME OR TEXTUAL WITH “ “, ARRAY/RANGE
OF CELLS, 0 – FOR EXACT MATCH), FOR INDEX – WHEN RANGE OF CELLS IS ONE-D SUPPLY ONLY ROW
NUMBER WITHOUT COLUMN NUMBER BUT IF TWO-D SUPPLY BOTH, CEN BE USED FOR TWO-WAY LOOKUP,
LEFT LOOKUP, CASE-SENSITIVE LOOKUP & MULTI CRITERIA LOOKUP, FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE GO
TO : https://exceljet.net/index-and-match

VBA
- TO PROGRAM NEW FUNCTION IN EXCEL FOR CALCULATION OF IDEAL GAS/VDW
- TO DO NORMAL ITERATIVE CALCULATION USING VBA
- TO DO FORLOOP ITERATIVE CALCULATION USING VBA AND BE FAMILIAR WITH IT’S CODINGS
- TO DO WHILELOOP ITERATIVE CALCULATION USING VBA AND BE FAMILIAR WITH IT’S CODINGS
- TO KNOW HOW TO USE DEBUGGINGTOOL IN ORDER TO SEE THE ACTUAL VALUES OF ALL VARIABLES
IN VBA LOCAL WINDOW
- TO DETERMINE THE DATA VALUE OF AN ELEMENT IN ARRAY
- TO DETERMINE THE INDEX NUMBER OF AN ARRAY AND FAMILIAR WITH IT’S LBOUND/UBOUND INDEX