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, ...

Create a table or use an existing table. In this tutorial, we have the text ‘hhans 1997‘ in the text column; we want to substitute the’ h‘ with an ‘s.’ Click the cell where you want to place the ...

How to use the new TEXTAFTER() and TEXTBEFORE() functions in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent A common task is to parse or find characters within a delimited string in Microsoft Excel.

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

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 ...

Excel can be a time sink. If you are tired of wrestling with VLOOKUPs, filtering data, and text manipulation, it’s time to ...

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 ...

How to use wildcards with the XLOOKUP() function in Excel Your email has been sent Microsoft Excel’s XLOOKUP() is powerful, but combined with wildcards, it’s also flexible. Lookup functions are great ...

Regardless of whether your Excel spreadsheet contains a little or a lot of data, you may want to have cells that meet certain criteria stand out. Excel lets you set some conditional formatting rules ...