The LAMBDA function in Excel is a powerful tool that allows you to create custom reusable functions without needing any programming experience beyond Excels formulas Heres a basic guide on how to use the LAMBDA function
The LARGE function in Excel is used to return the kth largest value from a data set Its particularly useful when you want to determine the top n values in a numeric data range Heres how you can use the LARGE function
The LCM function in Excel is used to find the least common multiple of two or more integers Heres how you can use it
The JIS function in Excel is used to convert halfwidth ASCII characters within a string to their fullwidth counterparts commonly needed when dealing with certain East Asian languages like Japanese This function is useful for aligning text consistently in databases and spreadsheets especially when working with a mix of character types
The KURT function in Excel is used to calculate the kurtosis of a dataset Kurtosis is a statistical measure that describes the shape of a distributions tails in relation to its overall shape In general it helps to determine whether the dataset has heavy or light tails compared to a normal distribution
The ISOCEILING function in Excel is used to round numbers up towards zero to the nearest multiple of a specified significance This function is particularly useful for financial and engineering applications where standard rounding conventions are required
The ISOWEEKNUM function in Excel is used to determine the ISO week number of a given date The ISO week numbering system is a standard that allows weeks to start on Monday and assigns week numbers ranging from 1 to 52 or sometimes 53 Heres how you can use the ISOWEEKNUM function
The ISPMT function in Excel is used to calculate the interest payment for a specific period of an investment or loan that is being paid down with regular installments It is particularly useful for understanding how much of a payment is going towards interest in a given period as opposed to the principal
The ISOMITTED function in Excel is a relatively newer function introduced to work with dynamic arrays and handle optional arguments particularly in the context of LAMBDA functions Its mainly used to determine if a value was omitted in the function call
The ISREF function in Excel is used to check if a value is a reference It returns TRUE if the value is a reference and FALSE otherwise This can be useful when you want to ensure that certain operations or functions that require references are only applied to valid references
