{"id":12435,"date":"2025-06-21T05:36:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guidance24.in\/?p=12435"},"modified":"2025-06-21T05:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:36:40","slug":"top-10-excel-formulas-every-beginner-must-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guidance24.in\/?p=12435","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Excel Formulas Every Beginner Must Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Excel isn\u2019t just about typing numbers \u2014 the real power lies in <strong>formulas<\/strong>. Here are the top 10 beginner-friendly formulas that will change the way you work in Excel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2705 Top 10 Excel Formulas:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><code>=SUM()<\/code> \u2013 Adds a range of numbers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>=AVERAGE()<\/code> \u2013 Finds the average<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>=IF()<\/code> \u2013 Adds logic (Yes\/No, Pass\/Fail, etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>=VLOOKUP()<\/code> \u2013 Searches for data in a table<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>=COUNT()<\/code> \/ <code>COUNTA()<\/code> \u2013 Counts numbers or text cells<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>=TRIM()<\/code> \u2013 Removes extra spaces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>=CONCATENATE()<\/code> or <code>=TEXTJOIN()<\/code> \u2013 Joins text<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>=LEFT()<\/code>, <code>=RIGHT()<\/code>, <code>=MID()<\/code> \u2013 Extracts specific characters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>=NOW()<\/code> and <code>=TODAY()<\/code> \u2013 Adds date and time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>=LEN()<\/code> \u2013 Counts number of characters in a cell<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excel isn\u2019t just about typing numbers \u2014 the real power lies in formulas. Here are the top 10 beginner-friendly formulas that will change the way you work in Excel: \u2705 Top 10 Excel Formulas:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-formula-tutorials","category-ms-excel"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/guidance24.in\/?author=1"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/guidance24.in\/?cat=34\" rel=\"category\">Excel Formula Tutorials<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/guidance24.in\/?cat=30\" rel=\"category\">MS Excel<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Excel isn\u2019t just about typing numbers \u2014 the real power lies in formulas. Here are the top 10 beginner-friendly formulas that will change the way you work in Excel: \u2705 Top 10 Excel Formulas:","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidance24.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidance24.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidance24.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidance24.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidance24.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guidance24.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12436,"href":"https:\/\/guidance24.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12435\/revisions\/12436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guidance24.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidance24.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guidance24.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}