Manually finding and replacing parts of text can be exceedingly tedious for lengthy Excel spreadsheets. Luckily, Microsoft included a couple of useful tools for locating text parts and replacing them ...

VLOOKUP has been the go-to function for looking up data in Excel for years, but it comes with limitations. You can only ...

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, ...

In this tutorial, we want to find the character of ‘Pig.’ We are going to click the cell where we want to find the character. Then type =Find; bracket. Inside the bracket, we will type “Pig,” which is ...

Q. Is there a way to include both a formula and text in the same cell? A. You can include both a formula and text in the same cell in Excel. You can do this in many ways, depending on what you are ...

If you've used data validation in Excel before, you probably selected the relevant cells, clicked "Data Validation" in the ...

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 ...

Have you ever found yourself manually updating Excel formulas, tediously adjusting titles, or struggling to make your spreadsheets adapt to changing data? It’s a common frustration, but what if there ...

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 ...

Calculate the difference between two values in your Microsoft Excel worksheet. Excel provides one general formula that finds the difference between numbers, dates and times. It also provides some ...