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Using other common functions

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Using other common functions

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With over 400 functions in Excel, you may be wondering "how do you get a handle on them, how do you know what to look for? We're going to give you a few examples on this functions worksheet, which is found in the Workbook 03- Creating Formulas and Functions. When you do have that extra moment, if you go to the Formulas tab in the ribbon, recognize that there are some groupings of functions here. Now, depending upon what it is you're doing, maybe you'll click on Math & Trig and begin to see some of the many functions here. Most of us don't have the time to do this, maybe not even the inclination, but if you do pause and hover over one of these, you do get a description of them. Sure enough, some of these names are going to jump out at you, something about degrees maybe. Converts radiance to degrees that may or may not be useful to you. Here's something called Fact, which opens us to factorials which is something you may have heard of. Logarithms-- those are built-in there. It sounds…

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