Excel Tutorial – ISFORMULA

The ISFORMULA function in Microsoft Excel is a useful tool for determining if a cell contains a formula. This can be helpful for tasks such as data validation or error checking.

Here’s how to use the ISFORMULA function:

1. Open a blank Excel spreadsheet.
2. In the cell where you want to display the result of the ISFORMULA function, type the following formula: =ISFORMULA(cell)
3. Replace “cell” with the cell reference for the cell you want to check. For example, if you want to check the value in cell A1, you would enter A1 in place of “cell”.
4. Press Enter to calculate the result. The result will be TRUE if the cell contains a formula, and FALSE if it does not.

The ISFORMULA function is useful for identifying cells that contain formulas, even if the formula has been hidden or the cell has been formatted to display the result of the formula rather than the formula itself. For example, you might use the ISFORMULA function to check for formulas in a spreadsheet that was created by someone else, or to identify cells that contain formulas that you want to modify.

For example, let’s say you have a list of values in column A and you want to check if any of the cells contain formulas. Here’s how the formula would look for the first cell in the list:

=ISFORMULA(A1)

This formula would check the value in cell A1 and return TRUE if the cell contains a formula, or FALSE if it does not.