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 ...

Learn how to use the TEXTJOIN function in Excel. The TEXTJOIN function can be used to combine data from a range of cells using one or more delimiters.

How to parse using Microsoft Excel string functions Before Flash Fill, most parsing required combining string functions such as RIGHT (), LEFT (), MID (), FIND () and LEN ().

The MID and MIDB functions in Excel return a specific number of characters from a text string starting at the position you specify.

How to Use VLOOKUP & Search Functions Together in 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 ...

TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER are a few more of my favorite Excel functions to clean messy spreadsheets. Excel's newer text ...

The new TRANSLATE function in Excel allows users to dynamically translate text into over 100 languages. This function can be particularly useful for ...

On Monday, the company announced that its Copilot AI is now available as an Excel function for Microsoft 365 insiders. That means you can add COPILOT to a formula and then use natural language in a ...

How to Use the Clean Function in Excel for Multiple Cells. Microsoft Excel's Clean function strips nonprintable characters from cell text. These nonprintable characters constitute the first 32 ...

Microsoft Excel’s XLOOKUP() is powerful, but combined with wildcards, it’s also flexible.