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Cell referencing

Columns are numbered with letters and rows with numbers. A cell can be specified using a latter and a number.

When cell references are copied (perhaps as part of formulae), the references may be automatically changed in a certain way - this is called relative reference: Eg: The reference A20 used in cell A2, when copied to B2 will automatically be changed to B20.

When such change does not happen, we have absolute reference to a cell. Eg A$20, and $A20 (the former indicating that the row is fixed and the latter fixing the column), $A$20.

Range specification

A:A, A2:A30.

Filtering

Condition specification

“>0”, value.

Counting

COUNTIF(rangeToCheck, condition, rangeToCount). rangeToCount is optional.

COUNTBLANK. COUNT.

Summation

SUMIF, SUM. These have syntax similar to countif and count.

Averaging

AVG(RANGE)

Looking up values

vlookup()

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