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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET
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Programming Excel with VBA and .NET

by Jeff Webb, Steve Saunders
April 2006
Beginner
1114 pages
98h 16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The WorksheetFunction Object

Another useful top-level object to know about is the WorksheetFunction object. That object provides the functions from the Excel formula bar to your Visual Basic code. Some of these members are redundant with those provided by the VBA object library, however, others provide very useful (and advanced) analytical and statistical functions, as described in Table 4-8.

Table 4-8. Members of the WorksheetFunction object

Member

Description

Acos

Returns the arccosine, or inverse cosine, of a number. The arccosine is the angle whose cosine is a number. The returned angle is given in radians in the range 0 to π.

Acosh

Returns the inverse hyperbolic cosine of a number.

And

The same as the Visual Basic And operator.

Asc

Converts double-byte characters to single-byte characters.

Asin

Returns the arcsine, or inverse sine, of a number. The arcsine is the angle whose sine is the given number. The returned angle is given in radians in the range −π/2 to π/2.

Asinh

Returns the inverse hyperbolic sine of a number.

Atan2

Returns the arctangent, or inverse tangent, of the specified x- and y-coordinates.

Atanh

Returns the inverse hyperbolic tangent of a number.

AveDev

Returns the average of the absolute deviations of data points from their mean. AveDev is a measure of the variability in a data set.

Average

Returns the average (arithmetic mean) of the arguments.

BetaDist

Returns the beta cumulative distribution function.

BetaInv ...

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