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MEDIAN

Supported, behaves as documented

Category: Statistical · Last tested 2026-08-06

Real, executed compatibility results for the MEDIAN function across Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice Calc — verified by actually running it. Syntax and links to each vendor’s official documentation are below.

Support matrix

EngineDocumentedLive-testedVerdict
Excel Yes Not yet n/a
Google Sheets Yes Not yet n/a
LibreOffice Calc Yes Yes (25.8.7.3, 2026-08-06) Supported, behaves as documented

LibreOffice version history

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

LibreOffice versionVerdictTested
24.2.0.3 Supported, behaves as documented 2026-07-19
24.8.7.2 Supported, behaves as documented 2026-07-19
25.2.0.3 Supported, behaves as documented 2026-07-24
25.8.7.3 Supported, behaves as documented 2026-08-06

Executed test cases

LibreOffice Calc 25.8.7.3 (tested 2026-08-06)

FormulaDescriptionResultExpectedVerdict
=MEDIAN(A1:A5) With an odd count of numbers, MEDIAN is the single middle value once sorted 5 5
Sorted: 1,3,5,7,9 -> middle value is 5		 Matched
=MEDIAN(A1:A4) With an even count of numbers, MEDIAN averages the two middle values 2.5 2.5
Sorted: 1,2,3,4 -> middle two are 2 and 3 -> average 2.5		 Matched
=MEDIAN(A1:A5) Text values and blank cells in a range argument are ignored (not counted as 0 and not counted toward the element count) 20 20
Only 10, 20, 30 are numeric -> odd count of 3 -> middle value is 20; if blanks/text counted as 0 this would shift the median		 Matched
=MEDIAN(A1) Degenerate single-value case returns that value 42 42 Matched

Docs & syntax

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