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 ...

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, ...

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 string ...

Normally what we do is just press “CTRL + F”, enter ‘*’ in the ‘find’ field and click on “Find All”. It will show all the entries in the search result and there is no confusion in that. When we search ...

Adding a search field to your spreadsheet can greatly improve data navigation and usability. In this guide, you’ll learn how to create a dynamic search box that filters data based on your input, using ...

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

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Let's face it—if you're automating your data workflow with formulas, you shouldn’t be manually rewriting text just to change the case. Luckily, Excel offers handy formulas that allow you to convert ...

Sometimes it's not possible to separate data yourself before putting it into an Excel spreadsheet. Often, the information from old data files gets lumped into a single cell. The same can happen if you ...