Digital Trends Enter text in cells You’ll likely use text in Excel for a variety of purposes. You may have a spreadsheet for an employee schedule, monthly bills, a calendar, or a project plan.

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.

ChatGPT can guide you on using text functions to manipulate and combine text strings in Excel. Functions like CONCATENATE, LEFT, RIGHT, MID, and LEN are commonly used for text operations.

You can combine text from multiple cells into one cell in Excel using the Ampersand symbol (&) or by using the CONCATENATE function.