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A gallery of real =VERVE() recipes grouped by category — money, weather and places, web and language. Each card shows the exact formula and what it returns. Copy one into Google Sheets or Excel and watch the cell fill. For how the function itself works, see the formula reference.

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  • Weather"Paris"
  • CurrencyUSD→EUR
  • Goldper oz
  • TimezoneA2:A9
Money & markets

Prices and rates, live

Exchange rates, metals and indices — into a cell that refreshes on your schedule.

Convert two currencies

The live exchange rate from US dollars to euros.

  • =VERVE("currency","USD","EUR")

Live gold price

Current gold price per ounce — no arguments needed.

  • =VERVE("goldprice")

Stock index level

The latest level for a market index, into a single cell.

  • =VERVE("stockindex","S&P 500")
Weather & places

Anywhere on earth

Conditions, single fields, and whole columns of geo data from one call.

Weather for a city

Current conditions and temperature for any city.

  • =VERVE("weather","Paris")

Just the temperature

A single field — the temperature in London — as one number.

  • =VERVE("weather","London","temp")

Fill timezones down a column

Resolves the timezone for every row in A2:A9 in one call.

  • =VERVE("timezone",A2:A9)
Web, language & more

Enrich and clean in place

Domain lookups, translation and world time — no exports, no copy-paste.

Look up a domain's DNS

Pull DNS records for a site to validate or enrich a list.

  • =VERVE("dnslookup",A2)

Translate a cell

Translate text from one language into another, in place.

  • =VERVE("translator",A2,"es")

Precise world time

The current time for any place, to timestamp your data.

  • =VERVE("worldtime","Tokyo")

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Do these formulas work in Excel too?
Yes. Every =VERVE() formula here works identically in Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel from the same key, so you can paste any of them into either.
How do I know a source's arguments?
Autocomplete suggests the source and its arguments as you type, and the full list lives in the source directory and the docs. The /formulas page explains the syntax in detail.

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