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Making Calculations with Functions

Excel is jam-packed with functions that can make you look like a financial wizard or a mathematical genius (if you aren’t either or both of those already, of course!). Do you want to know the standard deviation of a series of numbers? What about the sum of the squares? How about calculating the number and amount of the payments needed to retire a loan over a certain period? If you’re a real stickler for precision, you can even use a function that returns the value of pi, accurate to 15 digits.

Find a Function

1. Click in the cell in which you want the results of the function to be displayed.

2. Click the Insert Function ...