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Analysing Data Class 6

Analysing Data

Use of Advanced Functions

COUNT

The COUNT function is used to calculate the number of cells that contain numbers, this function
ignores the text values between the cells and only calculates numeric values.

1. Click the cell where you want to create the function, in this example, cell B6.

2. Enter formula =COUNT (B2:B6).

3. Another way of using the COUNT fx is to enter the
formula till =COUNT (and then select the cell ranges
manually using the mouse dragging.

4. Press enter and the answer will be 4.

5. COUNT formula ignores the value in B5 because it is a text value.

TODAY
To have the current date displayed on your worksheet, use the TODAY function.

1. Enter the formula in any cell where you want to enter today’s date =TODAY()

CONCATENATE

Concatenate function is used to join text values from multiple cells into one cell.

1. Enter the formula in any cell where you want to concatenate the data

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nd
2. in this example we have to join three words together, the 1 part of “We are” and the 2
part “Pakistani”.
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3. In 1 part “we” and “are” already have space in between whereas to give space between the
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1 and 2 part we have to put two double-quotes with space like this“ ” in the formula, this
will refer the formula as a string value of space in the outcome.

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