You can also use the TEXT function to pull the number of the day, as we did with the function DAY. To do this, define Format_text as “dd.” See the screenshot below that shows the number of the day in ...

The first part of the formula is =UPPER (LEFT (T3,1)). It capitalizes the first letter of the first word in the sentence. The LEFT function instructs Excel to go to the far left of the text string; ...

D. Extract everything except the first word in a string of text using TRIM, RIGHT, REPT, & SUBSTITUTE The purpose of this exercise is to remove the honorifics from a list of client names.

Extracting Dates: REGEXEXTRACT can be employed to extract dates from text and split them into separate columns for day, month, and year. This facilitates date-based analysis and reporting.

In “ Save time by using Excel’s Left, Right, and Mid string functions,” we showed you how to extract substrings from the left, right, or middle of a string with a fixed number of characters.

An Excel email address list should contain nothing but the addresses themselves. Yet if the spreadsheet received its data from an external form, the column may contain irrelevant text.