Today, one of the most recognized programs in Microsoft Office, definitely, is excel. Which, consists of a spreadsheet type tool that allows create, modify and manage different data, in order to manage any information in an intuitive and simple way. Taking into account that, works as an arrangement of rows and columns divided by cells.
In this way, it allows to carry out different tasks and actions very efficiently, either recording numbers in detail, doing calculations with mathematical tools, create graphs to capture information of interest and process text. Thus, It is ideal for performing operations with numbers organized in a Grid.
Now, thanks to its functionalities, users have the power to optimize your experience to the maximum. One of them is the possibility of set a value just by using a symbol, accordingly. Next, we teach you how it works and the steps to follow to carry out the process in question.
$ Symbol in Excel What is its main function in my spreadsheets?
As we indicated previously, Microsoft Excel It contains numerous utilities with which each user can optimize their experience, depending on the tasks you need to do. That is why, the use of certain symbols in this program, facilitates the execution of certain actions and are very helpful for people. One of those symbols, is the "$" known as a dollar symbol, a peso symbol, or a currency symbol, worldwide.
Which has a specific function in Excel and basically consists of setting a value in a spreadsheet. In this sense, the dollar symbol serves to avoid modifying the references, when the user has to copy a formula. Taking into account that it is possible to fix both a row and a column and even both within Microsoft Excel.
That way, What by default happens in Excel will not happen when people copy a formula from one cell to another. Since, when this is done, the program in question proceeds to modify any reference within said formula and is a change based on the displacement positions of the same.
So what the symbol does is act on cell references of any formula specified in an Excel area. So it is generally used when creating such a pattern in the contents of the grid cells. So, thanks to the "$", the values will be fixed when the formula is copied or dragged to other contiguous cells.
Steps to set the value of a cell in a Microsoft Excel document
As we mentioned in the previous part, the dollar symbol allows you to set cells of a formula in Excel and thanks to this, it is very useful to copy the same formula to more cells, leaving a set value or to drag said pattern without admitting modifications by the scroll positions. But, you may be wondering how the symbol in question should be used for the method to work correctly in the Microsoft Office spreadsheet.
And that is why, below, we will explain all the steps to follow for that:
- First of all, access the document of Excel where you want to do this and proceed to locate the cell you want to set in the spreadsheet.
- Then enter the corresponding formula and perform the operation you need. In this case, we choose to average.
- Now for example to set the first value of the listing, click on the cell that contains the result and there, proceed to enter the symbol "$" in cell B1 which is the one that corresponds to that value (as shown in the image).