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Learn about 10 Text functions in Excel with examples, including Find, Len, Left, Right, Mid, Substitute, Upper, Trim, Concatenate, and Text.
The Excel TEXTSPLIT function can split text strings by using row or column delimiters. Learn how to use the new TEXTSPLIT () function in Excel.
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 ...
Microsoft Excel’s new text functions make working with strings a breeze. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock A common task is to parse or find characters within a delimited string in Microsoft Excel.
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 ...
Excel doesn't offer a one-click solution if you need text in sentence case (where only the first letter of the sentence is capitalized). But don’t worry! You can create a custom formula using the LEFT ...
The Trim function requires a single reference to operate. For example, entering "=TRIM (A1)" without quotes will strip all but single spaces between words from the string " this is a test " in ...
The first part of the formula is =UPPER (LEFT (T3,1)). It capitalizes the first letter of the first word in the sentence. The LEFT function instructs Excel to go to the far left of the text string; ...
Excel provides several functions to simplify this task and convert text-based information into usable formats: TEXTAFTER: Isolates date information from text strings, making it easier to extract ...