Excel filters help you find exactly what you want, no matter how big your spreadsheet database is. Here's how to set number, text and data filters.

How to Separate Text From Numbers in Excel. When you open a raw data file in Excel, the program doesn't always recognize the way in which the data is formatted, such as comma-delimited, tab ...

The REGEX functions are available for people using Excel for Microsoft 365 on Windows or Mac, as well as those using Excel ...

I use a spreadsheet that includes a list of machine parts identified by both words and numbers—for example, Part 2312. Since the cells contain both text and numbers, how can I sort them in numerical ...

How to Make a Graph With Strings in Excel. When you import data into Excel, if Excel determines that one of the values in a column of data contains a string, it might import all values in the ...

A surprisingly high number of scientific papers in the field of genetics contain errors introduced by Microsoft Excel, according to an analysis recently published in the journal Genome Biology.

Learn how to use Excel Power Query's extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components.

However, when I go to reformat them, Excel -insists- on converting the number to scientific notation--and since I'm editing the string into a non-number format (multiple spaces, parenthesis, etc ...

If you want to parse strings such as "First Last" into separate columns, you don't need to use fancy formulas. Excel has a tool that makes the job a snap.