GOOGLEFINANCE
Unsupported (not recognized)Category: Google · Last tested 2026-09-01
Real compatibility results for the GOOGLEFINANCE function: executed in Excel for the web, Google Sheets and LibreOffice Calc, measured against Google’s published documentation. Excel does not document GOOGLEFINANCE, so this page makes no claim about Excel. Syntax and links to that documentation are below.
Support matrix
| Engine | Documented | Live-tested | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excel (desktop) | No | n/a (not an Excel function) | n/a |
| Excel for the web | — | Yes (recalc, 2026-09-01) | Unsupported (not recognized) |
| Google Sheets | Yes | Yes (Drive import, 2026-09-01) | Supported, behaves as documented |
| LibreOffice Calc | No | Yes (25.8.7.3, 2026-09-01) | Unsupported (not recognized) |
LibreOffice version history
We executed the same test cases under each LibreOffice release to show exactly when GOOGLEFINANCE’s support changed — not documentation claims, real results.
| LibreOffice version | Verdict | Tested |
|---|---|---|
| 24.2.0.3 | Unsupported (not recognized) | 2026-09-01 |
| 24.8.7.2 | Unsupported (not recognized) | 2026-09-01 |
| 25.2.0.3 | Unsupported (not recognized) | 2026-09-01 |
| 25.8.7.3 | Unsupported (not recognized) | 2026-09-01 |
Why isn't GOOGLEFINANCE working in LibreOffice?
LibreOffice Calc does not implement GOOGLEFINANCE as of 25.8.7.3 — in our
executed tests it returns a #NAME? (unrecognized function) error. This is not a typo or a
settings problem, and saving the file as .xlsx does not change it: the function simply isn’t
available yet.
Watch the LibreOffice version support page —
we re-run every test on each new release, so it will flip to Supported here as soon as it lands.
Executed test cases
Excel for the web (executed 2026-09-01 via OneDrive recalculation)
These values come from Excel for the web, not from desktop Excel. They are two different implementations of the calculation engine, and this run measured only the web one: the corpus was uploaded to OneDrive as .xlsx, recalculated by Excel for the web on open, and downloaded again for readback. Excel for the web is a rolling service with no pinnable version, so the run is identified by its date. Where a value here disagrees with the Expected column — which is Microsoft’s documentation of the desktop product — we cannot tell you whether the web engine diverges from the desktop one or the documentation is wrong about both, because we do not run desktop Excel.
| Formula | Description | Result | Expected | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| =GOOGLEFINANCE("NASDAQ:GOOG","price") | Existence probe only: the value is a live market quote, so it changes with the market and cannot be asserted | #NAME? | ProvenanceNOT ASSERTABLE BY DESIGN, and deliberately recorded as a probe (expected: null) rather than a support claim -- the treatment batch B gave the CUBE* family and COPILOT, batch C gave DETECTLANGUAGE, and batch G gave RTD, STOCKHISTORY and TRANSLATE. GOOGLE SAYS THE VALUE MOVES, IN ITS OWN WORDS. The page describes the function as "Fetches current or historical securities information from Google Finance." and defines the exact attribute this case asks for as "Real-time price quote, delayed by up to 20 minutes." A quote that is real-time and delayed by up to twenty minutes has no value a test can be held to: two runs a minute apart may legitimately disagree, and an assertion would be a claim about the market rather than about the engine. The same page also states "The data is not for financial industry professional use or use by other professionals at non-financial firms (including government entities).", which is a further reason this corpus records the call rather than publishing a number from it. LIBREOFFICE, MEASURED BEFORE THIS FILE WAS AUTHORED. All four pinned builds (24.2.0.3, 24.8.7.2, 25.2.0.3, 25.8.7.3) were probed with NINE storage spellings -- plain, _xlfn., COM.MICROSOFT., ORG.OPENOFFICE., _xlfn.ORG.OPENOFFICE., ORG.LIBREOFFICE., _xlfn.ORG.LIBREOFFICE., _xlfn.COM.MICROSOFT. and COM.SUN.STAR.SHEET.ADDIN.ANALYSIS. -- and every one of those 36 combinations returned #NAME?. LibreOffice's own parser additionally wrote the name back into the converted file LOWER-CASED ('=googlefinance("NASDAQ:GOOG","price")'), which is what it does with an identifier it does not recognise as a function at all rather than with a function it knows under a different storage token. A #NAME? under all nine storage forms on all four builds is therefore a genuine absence and not a storage-form artifact of this harness, which is why 'unsupported in LibreOffice' IS a verdict this file publishes even though the returned VALUE is not assertable in any engine. BATCH PROVENANCE (batch J, group B of sheets-lo-only-plan.md -- Google-documented, service- or context-bound; the final batch of the completeness push). This function has x == false in docs/data/compat.json: Microsoft does not document it at all, so this corpus makes no claim about Excel, nothing here is measured against Microsoft's documentation, and the Excel column on the published page reads 'n/a (not an Excel function)' rather than a verdict. The authority is Google's own function help, cited by full URL and by the date it was read (2026-08-31) -- Google publishes no version number for Sheets, so a bare URL dates nothing. GOOGLE SHEETS: this batch builds the Sheets chunk whose ingest will record what the service returns for this call. Until that ingest lands the Sheets column on the published page reads 'Not yet' and nothing in this file claims anything about it. (Stated positively on purpose -- scripts/check_honesty.py bans the blanket negative shape of that sentence, and the guard is worth keeping blunt.) Google's GOOGLEFINANCE help page, read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093281. |
Error |
Google Sheets (executed 2026-09-01 via Drive import)
Google Sheets is a rolling service with no pinnable version, so this run is identified by its date. The corpus was imported to Drive as .xlsx, recalculated by Sheets, and exported back for readback.
| Formula | Description | Result | Expected | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| =GOOGLEFINANCE("NASDAQ:GOOG","price") | Existence probe only: the value is a live market quote, so it changes with the market and cannot be asserted | 335.41 | ProvenanceNOT ASSERTABLE BY DESIGN, and deliberately recorded as a probe (expected: null) rather than a support claim -- the treatment batch B gave the CUBE* family and COPILOT, batch C gave DETECTLANGUAGE, and batch G gave RTD, STOCKHISTORY and TRANSLATE. GOOGLE SAYS THE VALUE MOVES, IN ITS OWN WORDS. The page describes the function as "Fetches current or historical securities information from Google Finance." and defines the exact attribute this case asks for as "Real-time price quote, delayed by up to 20 minutes." A quote that is real-time and delayed by up to twenty minutes has no value a test can be held to: two runs a minute apart may legitimately disagree, and an assertion would be a claim about the market rather than about the engine. The same page also states "The data is not for financial industry professional use or use by other professionals at non-financial firms (including government entities).", which is a further reason this corpus records the call rather than publishing a number from it. LIBREOFFICE, MEASURED BEFORE THIS FILE WAS AUTHORED. All four pinned builds (24.2.0.3, 24.8.7.2, 25.2.0.3, 25.8.7.3) were probed with NINE storage spellings -- plain, _xlfn., COM.MICROSOFT., ORG.OPENOFFICE., _xlfn.ORG.OPENOFFICE., ORG.LIBREOFFICE., _xlfn.ORG.LIBREOFFICE., _xlfn.COM.MICROSOFT. and COM.SUN.STAR.SHEET.ADDIN.ANALYSIS. -- and every one of those 36 combinations returned #NAME?. LibreOffice's own parser additionally wrote the name back into the converted file LOWER-CASED ('=googlefinance("NASDAQ:GOOG","price")'), which is what it does with an identifier it does not recognise as a function at all rather than with a function it knows under a different storage token. A #NAME? under all nine storage forms on all four builds is therefore a genuine absence and not a storage-form artifact of this harness, which is why 'unsupported in LibreOffice' IS a verdict this file publishes even though the returned VALUE is not assertable in any engine. BATCH PROVENANCE (batch J, group B of sheets-lo-only-plan.md -- Google-documented, service- or context-bound; the final batch of the completeness push). This function has x == false in docs/data/compat.json: Microsoft does not document it at all, so this corpus makes no claim about Excel, nothing here is measured against Microsoft's documentation, and the Excel column on the published page reads 'n/a (not an Excel function)' rather than a verdict. The authority is Google's own function help, cited by full URL and by the date it was read (2026-08-31) -- Google publishes no version number for Sheets, so a bare URL dates nothing. GOOGLE SHEETS: this batch builds the Sheets chunk whose ingest will record what the service returns for this call. Until that ingest lands the Sheets column on the published page reads 'Not yet' and nothing in this file claims anything about it. (Stated positively on purpose -- scripts/check_honesty.py bans the blanket negative shape of that sentence, and the guard is worth keeping blunt.) Google's GOOGLEFINANCE help page, read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093281. |
Ran OK |
LibreOffice Calc 25.8.7.3 (tested 2026-09-01)
| Formula | Description | Result | Expected | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| =GOOGLEFINANCE("NASDAQ:GOOG","price") | Existence probe only: the value is a live market quote, so it changes with the market and cannot be asserted | #NAME? | ProvenanceNOT ASSERTABLE BY DESIGN, and deliberately recorded as a probe (expected: null) rather than a support claim -- the treatment batch B gave the CUBE* family and COPILOT, batch C gave DETECTLANGUAGE, and batch G gave RTD, STOCKHISTORY and TRANSLATE. GOOGLE SAYS THE VALUE MOVES, IN ITS OWN WORDS. The page describes the function as "Fetches current or historical securities information from Google Finance." and defines the exact attribute this case asks for as "Real-time price quote, delayed by up to 20 minutes." A quote that is real-time and delayed by up to twenty minutes has no value a test can be held to: two runs a minute apart may legitimately disagree, and an assertion would be a claim about the market rather than about the engine. The same page also states "The data is not for financial industry professional use or use by other professionals at non-financial firms (including government entities).", which is a further reason this corpus records the call rather than publishing a number from it. LIBREOFFICE, MEASURED BEFORE THIS FILE WAS AUTHORED. All four pinned builds (24.2.0.3, 24.8.7.2, 25.2.0.3, 25.8.7.3) were probed with NINE storage spellings -- plain, _xlfn., COM.MICROSOFT., ORG.OPENOFFICE., _xlfn.ORG.OPENOFFICE., ORG.LIBREOFFICE., _xlfn.ORG.LIBREOFFICE., _xlfn.COM.MICROSOFT. and COM.SUN.STAR.SHEET.ADDIN.ANALYSIS. -- and every one of those 36 combinations returned #NAME?. LibreOffice's own parser additionally wrote the name back into the converted file LOWER-CASED ('=googlefinance("NASDAQ:GOOG","price")'), which is what it does with an identifier it does not recognise as a function at all rather than with a function it knows under a different storage token. A #NAME? under all nine storage forms on all four builds is therefore a genuine absence and not a storage-form artifact of this harness, which is why 'unsupported in LibreOffice' IS a verdict this file publishes even though the returned VALUE is not assertable in any engine. BATCH PROVENANCE (batch J, group B of sheets-lo-only-plan.md -- Google-documented, service- or context-bound; the final batch of the completeness push). This function has x == false in docs/data/compat.json: Microsoft does not document it at all, so this corpus makes no claim about Excel, nothing here is measured against Microsoft's documentation, and the Excel column on the published page reads 'n/a (not an Excel function)' rather than a verdict. The authority is Google's own function help, cited by full URL and by the date it was read (2026-08-31) -- Google publishes no version number for Sheets, so a bare URL dates nothing. GOOGLE SHEETS: this batch builds the Sheets chunk whose ingest will record what the service returns for this call. Until that ingest lands the Sheets column on the published page reads 'Not yet' and nothing in this file claims anything about it. (Stated positively on purpose -- scripts/check_honesty.py bans the blanket negative shape of that sentence, and the guard is worth keeping blunt.) Google's GOOGLEFINANCE help page, read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093281. |
Error |
Docs & syntax
- Google Sheets: official documentation
Where GOOGLEFINANCE behaves differently
- Google-only functions: what ports to Excel and LibreOffice, and what does not
Executed: 47 functions Google documents and neither Microsoft nor LibreOffice does, 189 cases, 183 of them #NAME? in LibreOffice on all four pinned builds after five- and nine-spelling probes. QUERY and ARRAYFORMULA do not port; the operator functions do exactly; REGEXMATCH, REGEXTEST and REGEX are three different functions with three regex flavours.