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 ...

How to use the new TEXTAFTER() and TEXTBEFORE() functions in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent A common task is to parse or find characters within a delimited string in Microsoft Excel.

This post explains how to use the new Excel TEXTSPLIT function. TEXTSPLIT() is a Text function in Excel. The purpose of this function is to split a given text string on the basis of one or more ...

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 ...

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...

Q. I receive customer names from my clients in all different cases. Is there a way to organize the case of all customer names consistently? A. You can change the case ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel, wishing it could just do *that one thing* to make your work easier? Maybe you’ve spent hours manually replacing text, trying to filter data with ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with an Excel formula, wondering why a seemingly simple task feels so complicated? For years, functions like VLOOKUP, CONCAT, and OFFSET were the go-to tools for ...

Computer programmers often use parsing programs to convert text into formats that other applications can use. Parsers split items in a text string into separate fields. If, for example, you have a ...

After years of wrestling with messy spreadsheets, I've discovered four Excel functions that save me hours every week by automating tedious tasks most people do manually. I stopped using VLOOKUP years ...