Can Notion do Excel formulas?

Partially. Notion has formulas, but they work differently from Excel.

Notion formulas can handle math operations, date calculations, conditional logic, and text manipulation, but only per row inside a database.

You cannot use cell references like A1 or B2, VLOOKUP, SUMIF, pivot tables, or complex array formulas that operate across multiple rows.

For spreadsheet-level calculations, Excel or Google Sheets are still the better fit. You can always embed or sync those results back into Notion.

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