QUARTILE.EXC Function in Excel: Quartiles Excluding the Ends

⏱ 1 min readUpdated 28 September 2026

StatisticsLevel: ExpertAvailable in: Excel 2010+

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

QUARTILE.EXC matches the method many statistics textbooks and tools use; results differ slightly from QUARTILE.INC on small data.

Syntax

=QUARTILE.EXC(array, quart)
Argument What it means
quart 1, 2 or 3 only.

Examples

Example 1

=QUARTILE.EXC(D2:D40, 1)

First quartile.

QUARTILE.INC · PERCENTILE.EXC

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