Comments on: Adding Comments to Formulas

By: Katharina Kanns

Katharina Kanns — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:38:00 +0000

Great idea – sometimes it can be SO helpful to add a note to remember yourself “what the hell was I thinking when writing this formula”. Using N as a documentation feature will help a lot for the future, thank you!

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:06:13 +0000

Thanks Scott,

I understand what the formula is doing now. LOL This isn’t a ‘visible’ comment in the result but a ‘note’ to yourself embedded in the formula.

I thought it was trying to accomplish: =AVERAGE(A1:A25)&(“Period 1 Class Average”) in a different way that my version of Excel wasn’t capable of yet. :)

By: Scott DeLuzio

Scott DeLuzio — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:12:53 +0000

Hi Glenn,
Yes +N(“COMMENTS HERE”) will result in 0.
The N() function converts non-number values to a number, dates to serial numbers, TRUE to 1, anything else to 0.
According to the Excel Help article on this function:
If a value is, or refers to a number N() returns that number.
If a value is, or refers to a date N() returns the serial number of that date.
If a value is, or refers to TRUE N() returns 1.
If a value is, or refers to FALSE N() returns 0.
If a value is, or refers to an error value (i.e. #DIV/0!) N() returns that error value.
If a value is, or refers to anything else N() returns 0.

By: Glenn Magas

Glenn Magas — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 02:12:54 +0000

Doesn’t +N(“COMMENTS HERE”) result in 0? So a 0 will be added to the initial calculation?