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INFO

Quirk found

Category: Information · Last tested 2026-09-01

Real compatibility results for the INFO function: executed in Excel for the web, Google Sheets and LibreOffice Calc, with desktop Excel behavior from Microsoft’s official documentation (we do not run desktop Excel — Excel for the web is a different application and is executed separately). Syntax and links to that documentation are below.

Support matrix

EngineDocumentedLive-testedVerdict
Excel (desktop)Yes No — documented only n/a
Excel for the web— Yes (recalc, 2026-09-01) Quirk found
Google SheetsNo Yes (Drive import, 2026-08-31) Unsupported (not recognized)
LibreOffice CalcYes Yes (25.8.7.3, 2026-08-31) Quirk found

LibreOffice version history

We executed the same test cases under each LibreOffice release to show exactly when INFO’s support changed — not documentation claims, real results.

LibreOffice versionVerdictTested
24.2.0.3 Quirk found 2026-08-31
24.8.7.2 Quirk found 2026-08-31
25.2.0.3 Quirk found 2026-08-31
25.8.7.3 Quirk found 2026-08-31

Why isn't INFO working in LibreOffice?

INFO exists in LibreOffice 25.8.7.3, but it is not a drop-in match for Excel — our executed tests found real behavioral differences (detailed in the test results on this page). If a formula that works in Excel or Google Sheets misbehaves in LibreOffice, compare your usage against the failing cases above before assuming your data is wrong.

Why isn’t INFO working in Google Sheets?

Google Sheets does not implement INFO: we imported the formula into Sheets on 2026-08-31 and every case came back #NAME? (unrecognized function). Sheets is a rolling service with no version to pin, so this is a statement about the service on that date, and Google’s own function list does not document it either. Rewrite the formula with a documented Sheets equivalent — see the Excel ↔ Sheets equivalents table.

Discovered quirks

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.

FormulaDescriptionResultExpectedVerdict
=OR(INFO("recalc")="Automatic",INFO("recalc")="Manual") Microsoft's second documented worked example: recalculation mode, which the page says is one of exactly two strings #VALUE! True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "recalc" as "Current recalculation mode; returns \"Automatic\" or \"Manual\"", and the page's own Result column for =INFO("recalc") reads '\"Automatic\" or \"Manual\" depending on the current state of your calculation options'. The documentation therefore fixes a two-value enumeration, not a value, so the enumeration is what is asserted. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Mismatch
=ISNUMBER(INFO("numfile")) Microsoft's first documented worked example: the sheet count, which the page says is a number False True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "numfile" as "Number of worksheets in the open workbooks", and the page's Result column for =INFO("numfile") reads 'a number indicating how many sheets are in the currently open workbooks' -- Microsoft publishes that sentence INSTEAD of a figure, because the figure depends on what is open. So the documented promise is "a number", and ISNUMBER is the exact assertion of it. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Mismatch
=ISTEXT(INFO("osversion")) The operating system version, which the page says is returned as text False True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "osversion" as "Current operating system version, as text". The words "as text" are the documented guarantee, and ISTEXT asserts precisely that. The string itself is machine-specific (all four builds here return "Linux 7.0"). WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Mismatch
=ISTEXT(INFO("release")) The application version, which the page says is returned as text False True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "release" as "Version of Microsoft Excel, as text". Again "as text" is the documented guarantee. The string is emphatically build-specific and is NOT assertable: the four pinned LibreOffice builds return four different strings here, and three of them are not version numbers at all but 40-character git commit hashes (24.2.0.3 -> da48488a73ddd66ea24cf16bbc4f7b9c08e9bea1, 24.8.7.2 -> e07d0a63a46349d29051da79b1fde8160bab2a89, 25.2.0.3 -> e1cf4a87eb02d755bce1a01209907ea5ddc8f069), while 25.8.7.3 returns "580(Build:3)". A workbook that parses INFO("release") to branch on version -- the obvious reason to call it -- gets nothing parseable from three of these four releases. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Mismatch
=ISTEXT(INFO("directory")) The current directory, which the page documents as a path False True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "directory" as "Path of the current directory or folder specified in the Excel option, At startup, open all files in". A path is text, so ISTEXT is the documented promise. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures. EXECUTED RESULT: FALSE on all four LibreOffice builds -- INFO("directory") returns #N/A there, and because the IS functions inspect rather than propagate, ISTEXT reports a clean FALSE instead of surfacing the error. So a workbook asking LibreOffice where it is gets no answer and no complaint.

Mismatch
=LEFT(INFO("origin"),3)="$A:" The top-left visible cell, which the page says is returned as text prepended with "$A:" #VALUE! True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "origin" as returning "the absolute cell reference of the top and leftmost cell visible in the window ... as text prepended with \"$A:\"", and gives worked forms for both reference styles ("$A:$D$9" in A1 style, "$A:R9C4" in R1C1 style). The scroll position is not fixed, but the "$A:" prefix is documented for BOTH styles, so the prefix is what is asserted. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures. EXECUTED RESULT: #N/A on all four LibreOffice builds, propagated from INFO("origin") itself. "directory" and "origin" are the two documented type_text codes LibreOffice does not implement; every other code in this file it answers.

Mismatch
=INFO("memavail") A retired memory code, which the page says now returns #N/A #VALUE! #N/A
Provenance

Excel documents, in an Important box: "In previous versions of Microsoft Excel, the \"memavail\", \"memused\", and \"totmem\" type_text values, returned memory information. These type_text values are no longer supported and now return a #N/A error value." That makes #N/A the documented CORRECT answer here, not a failure -- one of the few places in this corpus where an error value is the specification. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Mismatch
=INFO("memused") The second of the three retired memory codes #VALUE! #N/A
Provenance

Same documented Important box as INFO("memavail"): "memavail", "memused" and "totmem" "are no longer supported and now return a #N/A error value". All three are asserted separately because the documentation names all three separately, and an engine could easily retire one spelling and not the others. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Mismatch
=INFO("totmem") The third of the three retired memory codes #VALUE! #N/A
Provenance

Same documented Important box: "totmem" is one of the three type_text values that "are no longer supported and now return a #N/A error value". WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Mismatch
=INFO("system") PROBE: the operating environment name, whose documented enumeration has no entry for Linux #VALUE!
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "system" as "Name of the operating environment: Macintosh = \"mac\" Windows = \"pcdos\"" -- a closed two-value enumeration with no third option. The harness runs on Linux, which the documentation simply does not cover, so no expected value can be derived and none is invented: this is recorded as a probe. FOR THE RECORD, all four LibreOffice builds return the string "LINUX" here. That is neither of the two documented values, and it is also not an error, so a workbook that tests INFO("system")="pcdos" to detect Windows gets a clean FALSE rather than anything that signals the question was unanswerable. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Error

Google Sheets (executed 2026-08-31 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.

FormulaDescriptionResultExpectedVerdict
=OR(INFO("recalc")="Automatic",INFO("recalc")="Manual") Microsoft's second documented worked example: recalculation mode, which the page says is one of exactly two strings #NAME? True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "recalc" as "Current recalculation mode; returns \"Automatic\" or \"Manual\"", and the page's own Result column for =INFO("recalc") reads '\"Automatic\" or \"Manual\" depending on the current state of your calculation options'. The documentation therefore fixes a two-value enumeration, not a value, so the enumeration is what is asserted. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Mismatch
=ISNUMBER(INFO("numfile")) Microsoft's first documented worked example: the sheet count, which the page says is a number False True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "numfile" as "Number of worksheets in the open workbooks", and the page's Result column for =INFO("numfile") reads 'a number indicating how many sheets are in the currently open workbooks' -- Microsoft publishes that sentence INSTEAD of a figure, because the figure depends on what is open. So the documented promise is "a number", and ISNUMBER is the exact assertion of it. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Mismatch
=ISTEXT(INFO("osversion")) The operating system version, which the page says is returned as text False True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "osversion" as "Current operating system version, as text". The words "as text" are the documented guarantee, and ISTEXT asserts precisely that. The string itself is machine-specific (all four builds here return "Linux 7.0"). WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Mismatch
=ISTEXT(INFO("release")) The application version, which the page says is returned as text False True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "release" as "Version of Microsoft Excel, as text". Again "as text" is the documented guarantee. The string is emphatically build-specific and is NOT assertable: the four pinned LibreOffice builds return four different strings here, and three of them are not version numbers at all but 40-character git commit hashes (24.2.0.3 -> da48488a73ddd66ea24cf16bbc4f7b9c08e9bea1, 24.8.7.2 -> e07d0a63a46349d29051da79b1fde8160bab2a89, 25.2.0.3 -> e1cf4a87eb02d755bce1a01209907ea5ddc8f069), while 25.8.7.3 returns "580(Build:3)". A workbook that parses INFO("release") to branch on version -- the obvious reason to call it -- gets nothing parseable from three of these four releases. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Mismatch
=ISTEXT(INFO("directory")) The current directory, which the page documents as a path False True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "directory" as "Path of the current directory or folder specified in the Excel option, At startup, open all files in". A path is text, so ISTEXT is the documented promise. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures. EXECUTED RESULT: FALSE on all four LibreOffice builds -- INFO("directory") returns #N/A there, and because the IS functions inspect rather than propagate, ISTEXT reports a clean FALSE instead of surfacing the error. So a workbook asking LibreOffice where it is gets no answer and no complaint.

Mismatch
=LEFT(INFO("origin"),3)="$A:" The top-left visible cell, which the page says is returned as text prepended with "$A:" #NAME? True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "origin" as returning "the absolute cell reference of the top and leftmost cell visible in the window ... as text prepended with \"$A:\"", and gives worked forms for both reference styles ("$A:$D$9" in A1 style, "$A:R9C4" in R1C1 style). The scroll position is not fixed, but the "$A:" prefix is documented for BOTH styles, so the prefix is what is asserted. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures. EXECUTED RESULT: #N/A on all four LibreOffice builds, propagated from INFO("origin") itself. "directory" and "origin" are the two documented type_text codes LibreOffice does not implement; every other code in this file it answers.

Mismatch
=INFO("memavail") A retired memory code, which the page says now returns #N/A #NAME? #N/A
Provenance

Excel documents, in an Important box: "In previous versions of Microsoft Excel, the \"memavail\", \"memused\", and \"totmem\" type_text values, returned memory information. These type_text values are no longer supported and now return a #N/A error value." That makes #N/A the documented CORRECT answer here, not a failure -- one of the few places in this corpus where an error value is the specification. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Mismatch
=INFO("memused") The second of the three retired memory codes #NAME? #N/A
Provenance

Same documented Important box as INFO("memavail"): "memavail", "memused" and "totmem" "are no longer supported and now return a #N/A error value". All three are asserted separately because the documentation names all three separately, and an engine could easily retire one spelling and not the others. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Mismatch
=INFO("totmem") The third of the three retired memory codes #NAME? #N/A
Provenance

Same documented Important box: "totmem" is one of the three type_text values that "are no longer supported and now return a #N/A error value". WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Mismatch
=INFO("system") PROBE: the operating environment name, whose documented enumeration has no entry for Linux #NAME?
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "system" as "Name of the operating environment: Macintosh = \"mac\" Windows = \"pcdos\"" -- a closed two-value enumeration with no third option. The harness runs on Linux, which the documentation simply does not cover, so no expected value can be derived and none is invented: this is recorded as a probe. FOR THE RECORD, all four LibreOffice builds return the string "LINUX" here. That is neither of the two documented values, and it is also not an error, so a workbook that tests INFO("system")="pcdos" to detect Windows gets a clean FALSE rather than anything that signals the question was unanswerable. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Error

LibreOffice Calc 25.8.7.3 (tested 2026-08-31)

FormulaDescriptionResultExpectedVerdict
=OR(INFO("recalc")="Automatic",INFO("recalc")="Manual") Microsoft's second documented worked example: recalculation mode, which the page says is one of exactly two strings True True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "recalc" as "Current recalculation mode; returns \"Automatic\" or \"Manual\"", and the page's own Result column for =INFO("recalc") reads '\"Automatic\" or \"Manual\" depending on the current state of your calculation options'. The documentation therefore fixes a two-value enumeration, not a value, so the enumeration is what is asserted. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Matched
=ISNUMBER(INFO("numfile")) Microsoft's first documented worked example: the sheet count, which the page says is a number True True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "numfile" as "Number of worksheets in the open workbooks", and the page's Result column for =INFO("numfile") reads 'a number indicating how many sheets are in the currently open workbooks' -- Microsoft publishes that sentence INSTEAD of a figure, because the figure depends on what is open. So the documented promise is "a number", and ISNUMBER is the exact assertion of it. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Matched
=ISTEXT(INFO("osversion")) The operating system version, which the page says is returned as text True True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "osversion" as "Current operating system version, as text". The words "as text" are the documented guarantee, and ISTEXT asserts precisely that. The string itself is machine-specific (all four builds here return "Linux 7.0"). WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Matched
=ISTEXT(INFO("release")) The application version, which the page says is returned as text True True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "release" as "Version of Microsoft Excel, as text". Again "as text" is the documented guarantee. The string is emphatically build-specific and is NOT assertable: the four pinned LibreOffice builds return four different strings here, and three of them are not version numbers at all but 40-character git commit hashes (24.2.0.3 -> da48488a73ddd66ea24cf16bbc4f7b9c08e9bea1, 24.8.7.2 -> e07d0a63a46349d29051da79b1fde8160bab2a89, 25.2.0.3 -> e1cf4a87eb02d755bce1a01209907ea5ddc8f069), while 25.8.7.3 returns "580(Build:3)". A workbook that parses INFO("release") to branch on version -- the obvious reason to call it -- gets nothing parseable from three of these four releases. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Matched
=ISTEXT(INFO("directory")) The current directory, which the page documents as a path False True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "directory" as "Path of the current directory or folder specified in the Excel option, At startup, open all files in". A path is text, so ISTEXT is the documented promise. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures. EXECUTED RESULT: FALSE on all four LibreOffice builds -- INFO("directory") returns #N/A there, and because the IS functions inspect rather than propagate, ISTEXT reports a clean FALSE instead of surfacing the error. So a workbook asking LibreOffice where it is gets no answer and no complaint.

Mismatch
=LEFT(INFO("origin"),3)="$A:" The top-left visible cell, which the page says is returned as text prepended with "$A:" #N/A True
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "origin" as returning "the absolute cell reference of the top and leftmost cell visible in the window ... as text prepended with \"$A:\"", and gives worked forms for both reference styles ("$A:$D$9" in A1 style, "$A:R9C4" in R1C1 style). The scroll position is not fixed, but the "$A:" prefix is documented for BOTH styles, so the prefix is what is asserted. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures. EXECUTED RESULT: #N/A on all four LibreOffice builds, propagated from INFO("origin") itself. "directory" and "origin" are the two documented type_text codes LibreOffice does not implement; every other code in this file it answers.

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=INFO("memavail") A retired memory code, which the page says now returns #N/A #N/A #N/A
Provenance

Excel documents, in an Important box: "In previous versions of Microsoft Excel, the \"memavail\", \"memused\", and \"totmem\" type_text values, returned memory information. These type_text values are no longer supported and now return a #N/A error value." That makes #N/A the documented CORRECT answer here, not a failure -- one of the few places in this corpus where an error value is the specification. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Matched
=INFO("memused") The second of the three retired memory codes #N/A #N/A
Provenance

Same documented Important box as INFO("memavail"): "memavail", "memused" and "totmem" "are no longer supported and now return a #N/A error value". All three are asserted separately because the documentation names all three separately, and an engine could easily retire one spelling and not the others. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

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=INFO("totmem") The third of the three retired memory codes #N/A #N/A
Provenance

Same documented Important box: "totmem" is one of the three type_text values that "are no longer supported and now return a #N/A error value". WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

Matched
=INFO("system") PROBE: the operating environment name, whose documented enumeration has no entry for Linux LINUX
Provenance

Excel's type_text table documents "system" as "Name of the operating environment: Macintosh = \"mac\" Windows = \"pcdos\"" -- a closed two-value enumeration with no third option. The harness runs on Linux, which the documentation simply does not cover, so no expected value can be derived and none is invented: this is recorded as a probe. FOR THE RECORD, all four LibreOffice builds return the string "LINUX" here. That is neither of the two documented values, and it is also not an error, so a workbook that tests INFO("system")="pcdos" to detect Windows gets a clean FALSE rather than anything that signals the question was unanswerable. WHY THIS FUNCTION IS ASSERTED STRUCTURALLY. INFO returns facts about the machine the workbook is open on, so no fixed value can be asserted for most type_text codes without pinning the assertion to this VM instead of to the function. What the documentation DOES fix is the TYPE and the ENUMERATION of each answer, and that is what is asserted here: a wrapper such as ISTEXT() or OR() turns the documented promise into something a run can check on any machine. Codes whose documented answer this environment cannot produce at all are carried as probes with expected: null rather than as invented figures.

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