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EXCEL FUNCTIONS-SHEETS

INTRODUCTION

SHEETS function comes under the INFORMATION category in Excel.

THE SHEETS function simply returns the NUMBER OF SHEETS in the given workbook or given reference.

The SHEET FUNCTION is very useful if we need to find out the number of sheets contained in a workbook or contained in any reference.

SHEETS FUNCTION returns the NUMBER OF SHEETS contained in a workbook or reference.

THERE ARE A FEW PREREQUISITES WHICH WILL ENABLE YOU TO UNDERSTAND THIS FUNCTION IN A BETTER WAY.

Basic understanding of how to use a formula or function.
Basic understanding of rows and columns in Excel.
Some information about the financial terms is an advantage for the use of such formulas.
Of course, Excel software.

Helpful links for the prerequisites mentioned above

The Syntax for the function is

SYNTAX 1

=SHEETS()

RETURNS THE NUMBER OF TOTAL SHEETS IN THE WORKBOOK. THE SHEETS MAY BE HIDDEN, VISIBLE OR VERY HIDDEN.

SYNTAX 2

=SHEETS(REFERENCE)

REFERENCE It contains any REFERENCE which contains different number of sheets.

Returns the number of sheets contained by the given reference.

For testing the SHEETS FUNCTION let us create different entries on the different sheets.

We have created four sheets in the workbook.

We will find out the total number of sheets using the function SHEETS.

In sheet 2, we have created a cross reference containing sheet 2 and sheet 3. We will try to find out the sheets

involved in this reference using the function SHEETS(REFERENCE).

The text having random spaces has been taken for the example.

We can see that there are some irregular spacing in the line. So we will use the function TRIM to remove those spaces.

The formula used is

=TRIM(D9)

The text is stored in D9 which needs to be corrected. The output is shown in E9.