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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bill Detwiler shows you how to extract text from a cell using Excel’s LEFT, RIGHT, and MID string functions. If you can only read one tech story a day, this is it. We use cookies and other data ...

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, ...

Microsoft Excel’s new text functions make working with strings a breeze. A common task is to parse or find characters within a delimited string in Microsoft Excel. Fortunately, Excel has several ...

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, overwhelmed by the chaos of mixed data—names, IDs, codes—all crammed into single cells? It’s a common frustration for anyone managing large datasets in ...

Recently Microsoft has introduced a game-changing set of functions in it’s Excel spreadsheet software that harness the power of Regular Expressions (REGEX) to streamline data extraction, cleaning, and ...

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 ...