PERCENTILE.INC

Category: Statistical · Last tested 2026-09-01

Real compatibility results for the PERCENTILE.INC 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

LibreOffice version history

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

Why isn't PERCENTILE.INC working in LibreOffice?

PERCENTILE.INC 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.

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.

Google Sheets (executed 2026-08-29 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.

LibreOffice Calc 25.8.7.3 (tested 2026-07-29)

Docs & syntax

• Excel (desktop): official documentation
• Google Sheets: official documentation
• LibreOffice Calc: official documentation

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Where PERCENTILE.INC behaves differently

• Every error code LibreOffice reports as #VALUE!
  Across our 2,334-case executed corpus, 272 cases in 135 functions return #VALUE! in LibreOffice Calc 25.8.7.3 where Microsoft documents #NUM! (244), #N/A (15), #DIV/0! (10) or #REF! (3). Google Sheets returns the documented code on 239 of the 249 it has a function for. Identical in all four LibreOffice builds tested.
• #NUM! vs #VALUE!: Excel vs LibreOffice
  Domain errors Microsoft documents as #NUM! - LN(0), SQRT(-16), out-of-range LARGE - return #VALUE! in LibreOffice. Google Sheets returns #NUM! on all 16, executed: LibreOffice is alone.
• PERCENTRANK significance: Excel truncates, Sheets and LibreOffice round
  Executed: PERCENTRANK.INC(A2:A11,4) returns 0.556 in LibreOffice 25.8.7.3 and Google Sheets, and 0.555 in Excel for the web, where Microsoft publishes 0.555, and at significance 1 PERCENTRANK.EXC returns 0.4 against a published 0.3. The ranking arithmetic matches everywhere; only the significance step differs, and only on repeating decimals.