Excel+evaluation+Step+By+Step

Excel evaluation Step By Step Do you ever wonder how did Excel calculated that? Excel uses the standard order of operations to evaluate formulas. Here is a quick way to see precisely what's happening, step by step. First, you need to select the cell with the formula. Next you need the Tools menu > Formula Auditing submenu > Evaluate Formula choice. Or, if you have the Formula Auditing toolbar open, you can use the Evaluate Formula button. Which looks similar in some ways to a magnifying glass at the right-hand of the icons

The Formula Auditing window will open first, displaying the formula as it is in the cell.

At this point, you need to click the Evaluate button at the bottom. For every click, you'll see that Excel takes one (and only one) step in the formula evaluation process. You can tell which step will be next by the underline. Whatever is underlined will be next. It first starts out by replacing cell references with their values and then it moves on to actually using the order of operations to complete the math. When you have either seen enough or gotten to the final answer, click the Close button to get back to the workbook. There you have it. Step by step formula evaluation and removing all the "math mysteries" they can pose!  