A to Z of Excel Functions: The INFO Function

Welcome back to our regular A to Z of Excel Functions blog. Today we look at the INFO function.

The INFO function

The INFO function returns information about the current operating environment.  It employs the following syntax to operate:

The INFO function has the following argument:

• type_text: this is required and represents the specification of what type of information you want returned. 

It should be noted that:

• in previous versions of Microsoft Excel, the "memavail", "memused" and "totmem" type_text values returned memory information. These type_text values are no longer supported and now return an #N/A error value instead.

Please see my example below:

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