INFO Function in Excel: About Your Excel Environment

⏱ 1 min readUpdated 28 September 2026

InformationLevel: IntermediateAvailable in: Excel 2007+

In this article
  1. Syntax
  2. Examples
  3. Example 1
  4. Related functions

INFO returns details like the Excel version, operating system or current folder.

Syntax

=INFO(type_text)
Argument What it means
type_text “osversion”, “release”, “directory”, “numfile”…

Examples

Example 1

=INFO("release")

Excel version number, useful when supporting colleagues.

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