A mnemonic that can help you remember the order is PEMDAS or Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. Parentheses Exponentiation Multiplication division Addition Subtraction - Concatenation Logical operators Hope you understood how to use Mathematical and Logical operations in Excel. To change the order of evaluation enclose in parentheses the part of the formula to be calculated first.
If the calculations involve a combination of addition subtraction multiplication and division then.
BracketsParentheses always come first and exponents come second. The operations are addition subtraction multiplication division exponentiation and grouping. Excel Order of Operations If more than one operator is used in a formula there is a specific order that Excel will follow to perform these mathematical operations. You can type 2432-84 into a cell in an Excel worksheet and Excel will use the Order of Operations properly and display in the cell the value of 15.