Skip to content
Free Excel Tutorials
  • Home
  • Excel For Beginners
  • Excel Intermediate
  • Advanced Excel For Experts

Data Analysis

  • Subtotal function in Excel
  • How to Sort by Color in Excel
  • Filter Data Based on Date in Excel
  • How to conditionally sum numeric data in an Excel table using SUMIFS
  • How to create Checklist in Excel

References

  • Find Closest Match in Excel Using INDEX, MATCH, ABS and MIN functions
  • Get nth match with INDEX / MATCH in Excel
  • How to use Excel MMULT Function
  • How to use Excel LOOKUP Function
  • How to use Excel MATCH Function

Data Validations

  • Excel Data validation no punctuation
  • Excel Data validation must begin with
  • Excel Data validation specific characters only
  • Excel Data validation date in specific year
  • Excel Data validation must not contain

HEX2BIN function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

by

What is HEX2BIN function in Excel?

HEX2BIN function is one of Engineering functions in Microsoft Excel that converts a hexadecimal number to binary.

Syntax of HEX2BIN function

HEX2BIN(number, [places])

The HEX2BIN function syntax has the following arguments:

  • Number    Required. The hexadecimal number you want to convert. Number cannot contain more than 10 characters. The most significant bit of number is the sign bit (40th bit from the right). The remaining 9 bits are magnitude bits. Negative numbers are represented using two’s-complement notation.
  • Places    Optional. The number of characters to use. If places is omitted, HEX2BIN uses the minimum number of characters necessary. Places is useful for padding the return value with leading 0s (zeros).

HEX2BIN formula explanation

  • If number is negative, HEX2BIN ignores places and returns a 10-character binary number.
  • If number is negative, it cannot be less than FFFFFFFE00, and if number is positive, it cannot be greater than 1FF.
  • If number is not a valid hexadecimal number, HEX2BIN returns the #NUM! error value.
  • If HEX2BIN requires more than places characters, it returns the #NUM! error value.
  • If places is not an integer, it is truncated.
  • If places is nonnumeric, HEX2BIN returns the #VALUE! error value.
  • If places is negative, HEX2BIN returns the #NUM! error value.

Example of HEX2BIN function

Steps to follow:

1. Open a new Excel worksheet.

2. Copy data in the following table below and paste it in cell A1

Note: For formulas to show results, select them, press F2 key on your keyboard and then press Enter.

You can adjust the column widths to see all the data, if  need be.

Formula Description Result
=HEX2BIN(“F”, 8) Converts hexadecimal F to binary, with 8 characters (4 zeros at beginning are “padding”). 00001111
=HEX2BIN(“B7”) Converts hexadecimal B7 to binary. 10110111
=HEX2BIN(“FFFFFFFFFF”) Converts hexadecimal FFFFFFFFFF to binary. 1111111111

Post navigation

Previous Post:

How to generate random date between two dates in Excel

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Learn Basic Excel

Ribbon
Workbook
Worksheets
Format Cells
Find & Select
Sort & Filter
Templates
Print
Share
Protect
Keyboard Shortcuts

Categories

  • Charts
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Validation
  • Excel Functions
    • Cube Functions
    • Database Functions
    • Date and Time Functions
    • Engineering Functions
    • Financial Functions
    • Information Functions
    • Logical Functions
    • Lookup and Reference Functions
    • Math and Trig Functions
    • Statistical Functions
    • Text Functions
    • Web Functions
  • Excel VBA
  • Excel Video Tutorials
  • Formatting
  • Grouping
  • Others

Logical Functions

  • TRUE function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • How to use Excel XOR Function
  • IFS function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • IF, AND, OR and NOT Functions Examples in Excel
  • SWITCH function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

Date Time

  • How to calculate Quarter of Date in Excel
  • Display the current date and time in Excel
  • HOUR function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Pad week numbers with zeros in Excel
  • How to calculate working days left in month in Excel

Grouping

  • Group arbitrary text values in Excel
  • Map text to numbers in Excel
  • How to randomly assign people to groups in Excel
  • Group times into 3 hour buckets in Excel
  • Categorize text with keywords in Excel

General

  • How to get random value from list or table in Excel
  • Excel Operators
  • How to generate random number weighted probability in Excel
  • AutoFit Column Width, AutoFit Row Height in Excel
  • How to get amount with percentage in Excel
© 2025 xlsoffice . All Right Reserved. | Teal Smiles | Abbreviations And Their Meaning