In this post, you’ll learn about MAX Function, its syntax and the way of using MAX Function in an excel spreadsheet.
What is MAX Function?
The MAX Function in Excel is a statistical function. The MAX Function calculates and returns the maximum numeric value in the given range of values. MAX Function introduced in MS Excel 2007.
Syntax
=MAX (number 1, [number 2],...)
Arguments:
- = – built-in function.
- MAX () – function name.
- number 1 – (required) first numeric value.
- number 2 – (optional) reference values.
Arguments can be provided as constants, or as cell reference or ranges that contains numbers.
NOTES:
- In MS Excel 2007, and the latest versions MAX Function accepts 255 arguments. In earlier versions of MAX Function it accepts only 30 arguments.
- Arguments can be numbers, names, arrays or reference that contains numbers.
- If arguments contain no numbers, MAX returns 0.
- Ignores empty cells, logical values TRUE or FALSE, and numbers as text.
- To include logical values in a reference, use MAXA Function.
How to use MAX Function in Excel ?
MAX Function is used to calculate the largest value of the given data.
Example:
You can calculate the largest value of the students, in their exams.
STEP 1:
Open the workbook in your Microsoft Excel.
STEP 2:
Enter the data in the workbook.
In this example, we have entered some students name with their marks to calculate MAX Function.
STEP 3:
In the new cell, give the syntax. Always start with ‘ =’ for every functions, MAX Function name, followed by the open parenthesis, to the arguments of the syntax.
The values are in the cell B3:B7.
STEP 4:
Press enter to calculate the MAX Function.
Return 99. It is the largest value among the given data.
