Learn how to extract specific data from Excel cells using formulas, tools, and techniques to clean and organize messy ...

Q. I read your August 2022 JofA article about changing the case of text in Excel to upper, lower, and proper, but some of my data comes in sentence form. Is there any way to convert those text strings ...

When exporting data to Excel, text strings are often not properly formatted. They may appear in title case, sentence case, uppercase, or a mix of random cases.

Feed it a cell reference or text string, and Excel will handle the rest. Let’s say you're migrating data from a database ...

Regex patterns help search text strings efficiently (e.g., emails, digits, specific sequences) using symbols. Excel provides predefined regex functions (REGEXTEST, REGEXEXTRACT, REGEXREPLACE) to ...

The TEXT function in Excel is used to join a formatted number with a text string. For example, if an Excel sheet contains the string ‘Retails sales surge by’ in cell A1, ...

In this example, the required total is 40 hours. The total number of hours completed so far is a variable contained in cell E31. So, to display the remaining CPE hours as part of a text string in cell ...

Now you can delete columns H, I, and J, because column K has the completed text string. Note: In Excel 2016, there’s a new text function called CONCAT. According to Excel, ...

This guide provides step-by-step instructions with examples how to extract a substring in Excel using various text functions.

C. Extract the first word/name in a string of text using LEFT & SEARCH This formula works when you need to separate the first name from the middle and last name of a list of clients. 1.

Open Excel; Open the Excel file that contains the garbled data. Take a good look to see where the data has been placed. Long strings of data may appear to occupy an entire row, but are often in ...