Using the caret(^) found on the keyboard you construct a formula...............

=5^2 returns 25 which is 5 squared

=5^3 returns 125 which is 5 cubed

Or you can use the more unwieldy POWER function.

=POWER(5,2) to return 25


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:53:45 -0500, saziz
wrote:


Hi,
Is there a built-in command for squaring a number in Excel?
If I have a number say 5 in a cell A1 to do 5 x 5 how would I do it
other than
'=a1 x a1'

Thanks
Aziz