This illustrated walk-through (with a demo worksheet) shows how easy it is to create a multi-column search solution using validation lists and conditional formatting.

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.

In this month’s column, find out how to change text strings to sentence case in Excel.

How to Separate Text From Numbers in Excel. When you open a raw data file in Excel, the program doesn't always recognize the way in which the data is formatted, such as comma-delimited, tab ...

Learn how to use the Text to Columns options to split comma seperated text in Microsoft Excel. You can do the same in Google Sheets as well.

You can split cells into columns in Excel using the "Text to Columns" tool, which is a great way to organize lots of data.

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 ...

To ignore all numbers stored as text, you need to open the Data tab and select the Text to Columns option. Then, select the Delimited option from the Convert Text to Columns wizard.

If a program can output a delimited text file (I’ll get to what that means in a minute), Excel can turn it into a reasonable table. Of course, the text has to be properly prepared. Every line in ...

Prevent duplicates before they happen by combining a simple function with data validation. Excel has built-in tools to expose and even delete duplicates, but they work on existing data after the fact.