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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How to use the new TEXTSPLIT() function in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent Working with strings in Microsoft Excel is common, whether you’re parsing, concatenating or returning a character ...

Excel’s FIND function detects case differences to prevent mismatched IDs, flawed lookups, and hidden data errors.

Q. I read your August 2022 JofA article about changing the case of text in Excel to upper, lower, and proper, but some of my data comes in sentence form. Is there any way to convert those text strings ...

Old-school Excel functions like SUMPRODUCT, INDEX/MATCH, and IFERROR remain essential for stable, readable, and maintainable ...