CEILING Function in Excel

What is CEILING Function in Excel?

The CEILING function is one of the math functions of Excel.

It Rounds a number up, to the nearest integer or to the nearest multiple of significance.

We can find this function in Math & trig category of insert function Tab.

How to use CEILING function in excel

1. Click on an empty cell (like F5 )

2. Click on the fx icon (or press shift+F3)

3. In the insert function tab you will see all functions

4. Select math and trig category

5. Select CEILING function

6. Then select ok

7. In the function arguments Tab you will see CEILING function

8. Number is the value you want to round.

9. Significance is the multiple to which you want to round

10. You will see results in the formula result section

Examples of CEILING function in Excel

Example 1:

How to use CEILING function in excel

You can see examples of CEILING function below:

ceiling(A2,B2) ----->>>>answer is  12

ceiling(A3,B3) ----->>>>answer is  12

ceiling(A4,B4) ----->>>>answer is  15

ceiling(A5,B5) ----->>>>answer is  0

ceiling(A6,B6) ----->>>>answer is  -15

What is the purpose of CEILING function?

It Rounds a number up, to the nearest integer or to the nearest multiple of significance.

What is the Return value of CEILING function?

It returns a number.

How many arguments does CEILING function have?

This function has just 2 Argument.

The argument of CEILING function is number.

Number is the value you want to round.

Significance is the multiple to which you want to round.

The argument of CEILING function is required and not optional.

CEILING(number) = number

Which version of excel supports CEILING function?

This function is available for all excel versions (2003-2019)

Errors in CEILING function

CEILING related functions :

• MROUND function
• FLOOR function
• ROUND function
• ROUNDDOWN function
• ROUNDUP function
• INT function
• TRUNC function
• EVEN function
• ODD function