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 ...

A cluttered Excel sheet can be a nightmare—extra spaces, inconsistent formatting, random text everywhere. But with the right ...

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.

Excel’s Flash Fill is a lot faster and easier than combining string functions. Even when the data isn’t consistent, this feature does a good job of finding the pattern after a few tries.

$2, $1 tells Excel that I want to reverse the order of those two strings of text, separated by a comma and a space. If I didn't include the dollar symbols, Excel would simply return "2, 1" as the ...

Modern Excel functions like XLOOKUP, TEXTJOIN, and dynamic arrays offer faster, more versatile, and error-resistant alternatives to outdated tools such as VLOOKUP, CONCAT, and OFFSET.

The Sort Excel function is a powerful tool for organizing and arranging your data in a meaningful order. Whether you need to sort numbers, text, or dates, this function has you covered.

The easiest way to capitalize text in Excel is by using the PROPER function. It capitalizes the first letter of each word in a text string while converting all other letters to lowercase.

Excel groups functions into 12 categories: Compatibility, Cube, Database, Date and Time, Engineering, Financial, Information, Logical, Lookup & Reference, Math & Trigonometry, Statistical and Text.