{"id":5274,"date":"2016-11-22T23:28:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T22:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/?p=5274"},"modified":"2024-02-06T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T15:03:17","slug":"evaluate-formulas-step-by-step-in-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/evaluate-formulas-step-by-step-in-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluate Formulas Step By Step in Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the coolest tricks I have seen in Excel, as there are countless times wherein I had a hard time understand <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/top-excel-formulas-function-examples-to-get-better-at-microsoft-excel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"formulas\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">formulas<\/a>. Especially long and complex ones!<\/p>\n<p>Excel provides the way to evaluate your <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/top-excel-formulas-function-examples-to-get-better-at-microsoft-excel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"formula\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">formula<\/a>, and break it down step by step so that you can understand it!<\/p>\n<p>Let us take the formulas I&#8217;ve created below in the <strong>IS THE VALUE IN BETWEEN<\/strong> column\u00a0. We will see how this formula is resolved in a series of steps:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-01.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Evaluate Formulas Step By Step in Excel\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5277\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-01.png\" alt=\"Evaluate Formulas Step By Step in Excel\" width=\"765\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-01.png 765w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-01-300x45.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"after-post-box\">\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CJVRIkLrK-o?rel=0 \" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MyExcelOnlinecomtutorials?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignmiddle wp-image-111468 size-full\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.yt_.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"line-two\"><a class=\"IRPP_minimalist icon-download button small\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-leadbox=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas.xlsx\" data-leadbox-id=\"147284833f72a2:12f08263ab46dc\"><span class=\"ctaText px-3 text-capitalize\"> download excel workbook <i class=\"fa fa-download\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"postTitle px-3\">Evaluate-Formulas.xlsx<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 1:<\/strong> <\/span>You can see our formula uses both the <strong>If formula<\/strong> and the<strong> Median formula.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The goal of this formula is to evaluate if a value (<strong>VALUE TO BE EVALUATED<\/strong>) is in between the range (<strong>START OF RANGE to\u00a0VALUE TO BE EVALUATED<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>For example: Is 50 the median of the range 20; 60; 50?<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">=IF(C7=MEDIAN(A7:C7), &#8220;Yes&#8221;, &#8220;No&#8221;)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To start understanding our formula, highlight the formula, then go to\u00a0<strong><em>Formulas &gt; Evaluate Formula<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-02.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Evaluate Formulas Step By Step in Excel\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-02.png\" alt=\"Evaluate Formulas Step By Step in Excel\" width=\"978\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-02.png 978w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-02-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-02-768x240.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 2:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Our formula is now shown on screen, and the part that is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">underlined<\/span> is the one to be evaluated first. \u00a0Click <strong>Evaluate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-03.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Evaluate Formulas Step By Step in Excel\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-03.png\" alt=\"Evaluate Formulas Step By Step in Excel\" width=\"793\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-03.png 793w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-03-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-03-768x364.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 3:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<strong>C7<\/strong> has been evaluated to <strong>50<\/strong>. \u00a0Click <strong>Evaluate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-04.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Evaluate Formulas Step By Step in Excel\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-04.png\" alt=\"Evaluate Formulas Step By Step in Excel\" width=\"516\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-04.png 516w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-04-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 4:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 The median of the values from A7 to C7 (20, 60, 50) is evaluated as <strong>50<\/strong>. \u00a0Click <strong>Evaluate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Evaluate Formulas Step By Step in Excel\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-05.png\" alt=\"Evaluate Formulas Step By Step in Excel\" width=\"516\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-05.png 516w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-05-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 5:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 Is 50 equal to 50?<\/p>\n<p>Excel has evaluated it to <strong><em>TRUE<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0Click <strong>Evaluate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-06.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Evaluate Formulas Step By Step in Excel\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-06.png\" alt=\"Evaluate Formulas Step By Step in Excel\" width=\"516\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-06.png 516w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-06-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>STEP 6:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 Since the <strong>If formula\u00a0<\/strong>received a\u00a0<em>TRUE<\/em>, Excel evaluated it as a <strong>Yes<\/strong> end result. We have seen how the formula gave us the result in a few easy steps!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-07.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Evaluate Formulas Step By Step in Excel\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5283\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-07.png\" alt=\"Evaluate Formulas Step By Step in Excel\" width=\"516\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-07.png 516w, https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Evaluate-Formulas-07-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the coolest tricks I have seen in Excel, as there are countless times wherein I had a hard time understand formulas. Especially long and complex ones! Excel provides the way to evaluate your formula, and break it down step by step so that you can understand it! Let us take the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cos_headline_score":0,"cos_seo_score":0,"cos_headline_text":"","cos_headline_has_been_analyzed":false,"cos_last_analyzed_headline":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7,3,10,16],"tags":[209,43],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}