Editing Microsoft Excel (section)

=== Functions ===
{{See also|Microsoft Power Fx}}
Excel 2016 has 484 functions.<ref>{{cite web|title=Excel functions (alphabetical)|url=https://support.office.com/en-us/article/excel-functions-alphabetical-b3944572-255d-4efb-bb96-c6d90033e188|url-status=live|access-date=November 4, 2018|website=microsoft.com|publisher=Microsoft|archive-date=November 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105062357/https://support.office.com/en-us/article/excel-functions-alphabetical-b3944572-255d-4efb-bb96-c6d90033e188}}</ref> Of these, 360 existed prior to Excel 2010. Microsoft classifies these functions into 14 categories. Of the 484 current functions, 386 may be called from [[Visual Basic for Applications|VBA]] as methods of the object "WorksheetFunction"<ref>{{cite web|date=March 30, 2022|title=WorksheetFunction Object (Excel)|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/excel.worksheetfunction|url-status=live|access-date=November 4, 2018|website=Office VBA Reference|publisher=Microsoft|archive-date=November 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105062450/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/excel.worksheetfunction}}</ref> and 44 have the same names as VBA functions.<ref>{{cite web|date=September 13, 2021|title=Functions (Visual Basic for Applications)|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/language/reference/functions-visual-basic-for-applications|url-status=live|access-date=November 4, 2018|website=Office VBA Reference|publisher=Microsoft|archive-date=November 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105062438/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/language/reference/functions-visual-basic-for-applications}}</ref>

With the introduction of LAMBDA, Excel became [[Turing complete]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Gordon|first=Andy|date=January 25, 2021|title=LAMBDA: The ultimate Excel worksheet function|url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ultimatae-excel-worksheet-function/|url-status=live|access-date=April 23, 2021|website=microsoft.com|publisher=Microsoft|archive-date=April 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423120636/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ultimatae-excel-worksheet-function/}}</ref>