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Spreadsheet Formatting Class 4

Use of “Now” Function:

The Excel NOW function returns the current
date and time, updated continuously when a
worksheet is changed or opened. The NOW
function takes no arguments. You can format
the value returned by NOW as a date, or as a
date with time by applying a number format

Syntax: =Now ()

Use of “LEN” Function:

LEN Function in Excel can be used to count the number of characters in a text string and able to
count letters, numbers, special characters, non-printable characters, and all spaces from an excel
cell. In simple words, LENGTH Function is used to calculate the length of a text in an excel cell.

Let’s see how we can test a few conditions. Suppose we are given the following values:

We will get the results below:

In the above example:

Spaces are counted as characters. Hence, the function returned 13 for the first argument.
The length of the empty string is 0.

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