Formulas in Excel
How to Insert Formulas in Excel You might wonder what the "Formulas" tab on the top navigation toolbar in Excel means. In more recent versions of Excel, this horizontal menu -- shown below -- allows you to find and insert Excel formulas into specific cells of your spreadsheet. The more you use various formulas in Excel, the easier it'll be to remember them and perform them manually. Nonetheless, the suite of icons above is a handy catalog of formulas you can browse and refer back to as you hone your spreadsheet skills. Excel formulas are also called "functions." To insert one into your spreadsheet, highlight a cell in which you want to run a formula, then click the far-left icon, "Insert Function," to browse popular formulas and what they do. That browsing window will look like this: Want a more sorted browsing experience? Use any of the icons we've highlighted (inside the long red rectangle in the first screenshot above) to fin...
