ISNUMBER AND SEARCH FUNCTIONS IN EXCEL
In this Excel Function Explained video series, I will clarify, how to use ISNUMBER function in excel. It cascades under the information function category. Each function in the information category will provide information about certain things mostly in TRUE/FALSE manner. What you want to do with that information depends on your needs.
Usually, we nest these types of functions with if to get optimal result. The isnumber function is used to check if a cell value is a number or not. Using ISNUMBER function, you’ll be able to return true and false result based on the cell value.
Let’s learn how to use ISNUMBER formula in excel.
The Function looks like this = ISNUMBER (Value)
The ISNUMBER function has one parameter or argument.
1.Value: This is where you provide a cell reference or a value. If it finds the value is a number it will display true otherwise it will display false.
There are a few things you need to remember when you use this function.
1. You can directly insert complex nested functions inside this function as value.
2. It will consider date and time as number because its number
3. It will consider number, formatted as text, as text.
This is how we use ISNUMBER in excel. Remember, using ISNUMBER function in excel you actually tell excel formula to return TRUE or FALSE based on the cell content.
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