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7. Finding Functions: Mine Excel’s featu... > Anatomy of a function reference

Anatomy of a function reference

Here’s the help window for the DATE function. The documentation for individual functions is really interesting and useful.

Not only can you use the docs to find out what functions do, but you can also use them to learn about functions’ eccentricities—all the different types of arguments they accept and all the sorts of values they return, including explanations for why different errors might result from the same formula.

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Exercise

Use the syntax to create a list of weekends with the DATE function on your spreadsheet.

Exercise Solution

Were you able to implement the date function in your spreadsheet to get real date values out of the integers you created to represent the days?

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