Formulas and Functions
Table Of Contents
- Formulas and Functions
- Contents
- Preface: Welcome to iWork Formulas & Functions
- Chapter 1: Using Formulas in Tables
- The Elements of Formulas
- Performing Instant Calculations in Numbers
- Using Predefined Quick Formulas
- Creating Your Own Formulas
- Removing Formulas
- Referring to Cells in Formulas
- Using Operators in Formulas
- The String Operator and the Wildcards
- Copying or Moving Formulas and Their Computed Values
- Viewing All Formulas in a Spreadsheet
- Finding and Replacing Formula Elements
- Chapter 2: Overview of the iWork Functions
- Chapter 3: Date and Time Functions
- Chapter 4: Duration Functions
- Chapter 5: Engineering Functions
- Chapter 6: Financial Functions
- Chapter 7: Logical and Information Functions
- Chapter 8: Numeric Functions
- Chapter 9: Reference Functions
- Chapter 10: Statistical Functions
- Listing of Statistical Functions
- AVEDEV
- AVERAGE
- AVERAGEA
- AVERAGEIF
- AVERAGEIFS
- BETADIST
- BETAINV
- BINOMDIST
- CHIDIST
- CHIINV
- CHITEST
- CONFIDENCE
- CORREL
- COUNT
- COUNTA
- COUNTBLANK
- COUNTIF
- COUNTIFS
- COVAR
- CRITBINOM
- DEVSQ
- EXPONDIST
- FDIST
- FINV
- FORECAST
- FREQUENCY
- GAMMADIST
- GAMMAINV
- GAMMALN
- GEOMEAN
- HARMEAN
- INTERCEPT
- LARGE
- LINEST
- Additional Statistics
- LOGINV
- LOGNORMDIST
- MAX
- MAXA
- MEDIAN
- MIN
- MINA
- MODE
- NEGBINOMDIST
- NORMDIST
- NORMINV
- NORMSDIST
- NORMSINV
- PERCENTILE
- PERCENTRANK
- PERMUT
- POISSON
- PROB
- QUARTILE
- RANK
- SLOPE
- SMALL
- STANDARDIZE
- STDEV
- STDEVA
- STDEVP
- STDEVPA
- TDIST
- TINV
- TTEST
- VAR
- VARA
- VARP
- VARPA
- ZTEST
- Chapter 11: Text Functions
- Chapter 12: Trigonometric Functions
- Chapter 13: Additional Examples and Topics
- Index
Chapter 3 Date and Time Functions 55
Related Topics
For related functions and additional information, see:
“DATEDIF” on page 45
“DAYS360” on page 49
“WORKDAY” on page 61
“YEARFRAC” on page 63
“Listing of Date and Time Functions” on page 42
“Value Types” on page 36
“The Elements of Formulas” on page 15
“Using the Keyboard and Mouse to Create and Edit Formulas” on page 26
“Pasting from Examples in Help” on page 41
NOW
The NOW function returns the current date/time value from the system clock.
NOW()
Usage Notes
The NOW function does not have any arguments. However, you must include the Â
parentheses: =NOW().
Example
=NOW() returns October 4, 2008 10:47 am, if your le is updated on October 4, 2008, at 10:47 a.m.
Related Topics
For related functions and additional information, see:
“TODAY” on page 58
“Listing of Date and Time Functions” on page 42
“Value Types” on page 36
“The Elements of Formulas” on page 15
“Using the Keyboard and Mouse to Create and Edit Formulas” on page 26
“Pasting from Examples in Help” on page 41










