Advanced Excel Information - CELL Function

A text value that specifies what type of cell information you want to return.

The possible values of the Info_type, are shown in the Table Info_type Values below.

The cell that you want information about.

If omitted, the information specified in the Info_type argument is returned for the last cell that was changed.

If the reference argument is a range of cells, the CELL function returns the information for only the upper left cell of the range.

Filename (including full path) of the file that contains reference, as text.

Returns empty text ("") if the Worksheet that contains reference has not yet been saved.

Text value corresponding to the number format of the cell.

The text values for the various formats are shown in the table CELL Format Codes below.

Returns "-" at the end of the text value if the cell is formatted in color for negative values.

Returns "()" at the end of the text value if the cell is formatted with parentheses for positive or all values.

If you later apply a different format to the referenced cell, you must recalculate the Worksheet to update the results of the CELL function.

The value 1 if the cell is formatted with parentheses for positive or all values.

Otherwise returns 0.

Text value corresponding to the "label prefix" of the cell. Returns

• single quotation mark (') if the cell contains left-aligned text

• double quotation mark (") if the cell contains right-aligned text

• caret (^) if the cell contains centered text

• backslash (\) if the cell contains fill-aligned text

• empty text ("") if the cell contains anything else

The value 0 if the cell is not locked.

Otherwise, returns 1 (if the cell is locked).

Text value corresponding to the type of data in the cell.

• "b" for blank if the cell is empty

• "l" for label if the cell contains a text constant

• "v" for value if the cell contains anything else

Column width of the cell, rounded off to an integer.

Each unit of column width is equal to the width of one character in the default font size.