If you are interested in Excel’s text functions, you can also read the August 2023 Tech Q&A article “Join Text in Excel”, which explains the function TEXTJOIN, and the previous item in this month’s ...

Excel’s Text functions are a major time saver if your job entails managing massive data, especially data that’s imported from other sources. Fortunately, all ASCII data is easily imported, but the ...

A. TEXTSPLIT is a very useful function for breaking down text cells that contain different lengths of text and delimiters. It can be used in several ways, and we’ll review some examples of how to use ...

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions. One of the ...

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

The TRANSLATE function in Excel enables you to translate text into over 100 languages, covering a wide range of commonly spoken languages worldwide. This function is particularly useful for creating ...

While Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful spreadsheet applications, it’s also the most intimidating tool in the Microsoft Office suite. If you’ve never used Excel before or are just a bit ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number. This can be hard-coded inside double quotes or a reference to a cell ...

VLOOKUP and Search are two functions that Excel uses to search for text. VLOOKUP finds data in a column and returns the contents of an adjacent cell. Search finds data in a cell and returns the string ...

What if you could take the chaos of a sprawling Excel spreadsheet and distill it into exactly the information you need—no fluff, no manual sifting, just precision? For anyone who’s ever wrestled with ...

In this post, we will show you how to remove spaces between characters and numbers in Excel. Whether you want to remove leading or trailing spaces or trim extra spaces between words and numbers in ...

D espite its age, Excel continues to evolve with new functions being added over time. There are newer better Excel functions ...