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Airtable Formulas: A Practical Guide
Formulas are where Airtable goes from a nice list to a real system — calculating, summarising and connecting data automatically. Here's a practical guide to the ones that matter.
The building blocks
A few field types do most of the heavy lifting.
- Formula fields for calculations and logic
- Rollups to summarise linked records
- Lookups to pull in linked data
- Conditional logic with IF/SWITCH
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Where formulas save real time
Good formulas remove manual updates and errors.
- Automatic statuses and flags
- Totals, counts and progress
- Date math and deadlines
- Clean, derived data for reports