Regular expressions (or REGEX) are search patterns that can be used to check if a string of text conforms to a given pattern ...

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 ...

MID and MIDB functions are both text functions in Microsoft Excel. MID returns a specific number of characters from a text string starting at the position you specify; based on the number of ...

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with imported ...

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 ...

In this post, we will show you how to capitalize the first letter of a text string in Microsoft Excel. When exporting data to Excel, text strings are often not properly formatted. They may appear in ...

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions. One of the ...

Microsoft Excel's Clean function strips nonprintable characters from cell text. These nonprintable characters constitute the first 32 characters of the 7-bit ASCI code, which houses the 128 text ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

What if you could take the chaos of a sprawling Excel spreadsheet and distill it into exactly the information you need—no fluff, no manual sifting, just precision? For anyone who’s ever wrestled with ...