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.

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.

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functions like XLOOKUP, TEXTJOIN, and dynamic arrays offer faster, more versatile, and error-resistant alternatives to outdated tools such as VLOOKUP, CONCAT, and OFFSET.

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

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.

The Trim function requires a single reference to operate. For example, entering "=TRIM (A1)" without quotes will strip all but single spaces between words from the string " this is a test " in ...

Excel’s XLOOKUP () function is available in Microsoft 365 and Excel 2021, and Excel for the web. For your convenience, you can download the demonstration .xlsx files.

Use Lower function to convert text into lowercase in Excel Open Excel. Write uppercase text into the cell or cells. Type into the cell where you want to place the result, =LOWER (A2).