IS this Excel

Using this new estimating program at work and many of assemblies rely on these "qty calculation" fields. What language is in the qty. calculation fields? Is it Excel? If so what is the best resource so I can learn some this....when to use brackets, when to use some parentheses, what commas mean. I beleive they are "if then" statements. Some of this is familiar from school. My job depends on it...lol. Thanks a lot.

it doesnt look like excel isnt there an "about?" button somwhere

Hard to say. Some of the formulas look similar to Excel but without actually seeing spreadsheets, there is no definitive way of knowing. The form you are showing is not an Excel spreadsheet.

BTW: Posting something on a Saturday night and expecting a response within an hour and half is not realistic. Our forum guidelines suggest a minimum of 24 hours before bumping a thread. This is a worldwide forum of volunteers who log in and review threads at their own convenience. Additionally, pictures are hard to analyze. Actual spreadsheets are better.

Saturday night!!! its nearly 4am sunday here

Martin. Even a better reason to not expect an answer in 90 minutes

Sorry guys I just saw all ** the views...my bad.The support people who work for the company are saying "it's just excel" but slightly advanced. Are the (,[ and other symbols they use part ** the mainstream excel formulas. I know the basic excel formulas and this does not look the same. THanks

Edit: Well maybe it is Excel. I just came across this.

http://**fice.micros**t.com/en-us/ex...005251012.aspx

hm that appears to be about conditional formatting

no definately no, there also are functions that don't exist natively in excel even if it was they would be custom ones
eg autocutson()

i cant ,it just states a formula which i have no idea what its for. there is no = sign in front of it which probably means its just text to show what formula is being used,
you can use most formulas in conditional formatting that give true/false answers
=and(a1=4,b1=4) would give true if both =4
but if you used them as a regular worksheet formula you'd probably want some result other than just true/false
=if(and(a1=4,b1=4),"they are both 4","no they are not both 4")

Post a sample of this workbook you're looking at, as desensitized as you can make it, maybe we can figure out what you're looking at.

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If you can't slim down or zip the below the 1mb limit, the put it in a dropbox on the internet somewhere and give us a link to it.

There really is no workbook, just the pic I posted which is the electrical estimating program I am using.

That in itself is kinda telling me that you are not using excel

there are loads of electrical estimating program out there some you can import from excel and export to excel but there doesn't seem to be any obligation to have excel on your machine to use them

well really you will have to find the programmes name and see if there are any user guides
google spreadsheets for example are "like" excel but things are slightly different