The generic meaning of xlfn is “unsupported function”.

In the example shown, the UNIQUE function is used to extract unique values from a range of data.

UNIQUE is only available inExcel 365, and was introduced in 2020.

When the workbook is opened in an older version of Excel, the __xlfn prefix appears.

Note that the original result is still displayed.

However, the formula will not update to show a new result if data changes.