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Chapter: 5.4 Handling Operators Topic: 5.4.1 Handling Operators

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Chapter : 5.4 Handling Operators

Topic : 5.4.1 Handling Operators

Handling Operators
 Excel allows the user to use formulae to calculate and analyze data in their
worksheet.
 A formula uses the values in cells to perform operations such as addition,
subtraction, multiplication and division.
 Formulas need mathematical operators such as (+, - , *, /) and can use the cell
reference or cell names for referring to the contents of a cell.
 A formula always begins with an equal (=) sign.
 Excel allows the user to use formulae to calculate and analyze data in their
worksheet.
 There are four types of operators.
 Arithmetic operators
 Comparison operators
 Text operator
 Reference operators

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 Arithmetic operator
 These are used to perform basic mathematical operations, and to combine
numeric values to produce numeric result.

FIG 5.12: Arithmetic operators

 Comparison operators
 These are used to compare two values and produce a logical result either
True or False, 0 (Zero) or 1 (one). The following are the Logical operators.

FIG 5.13: Comparison operators

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 Text operator
 This operator joins two or more text values to produce a single combined text
value.
 Text formulas use the ampersand (&) operator to work with text cells, text
strings enclosed in quotation marks, and text function results.

Operator Name Example Result

& ampersand ="soft"&"ware" software

FIG 5.14: Text operator

 Reference operators
 The reference operators combine two cell references or ranges to create a
single joint reference.

FIG 5.15: Reference operators

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