Excel Tutorial - Formulas

In Excel, formulas can be embedded in a cell to perform any type of calculation or manipulation of data from a cell or group of cells.

Custom formulas

If you want to add two cells together for example A1 and B1 simply enter =A1+B1 in a cell.

Out-of-the-Box Formulas

Excel comes with predefined functions for a host of different types of operations.

For example, to perform the operation from above Excel provides the SUM function:

=SUM(A1:B1)