Sometimes it's not possible to separate data yourself before putting it into an Excel spreadsheet. Often, the information from old data files gets lumped into a single cell. The same can happen if you ...

Common wisdom is that word processors are for text and spreadsheets are for numbers. The reality, however, is that while spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel let you work with numbers in every ...

Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users ... I used the TEXTBEFORE function to capture everything before that last dash. The argument for text is the list of SKU numbers, which is A2:A14 ...

Microsoft has updated Excel to allow developers to programmatically create their own custom data types in the popular spreadsheet program. This update isn't aimed at Excel-using business execs but ...

In this post, we will show you how to remove spaces between characters and numbers in Excel. Whether you want to remove leading or trailing spaces or trim extra spaces between words and numbers in ...

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Microsoft Excel may be a productivity app that emphasizes numbers, but it has useful tools for text as well. For instance, that handy spreadsheet app will let you wrap text. And getting it done is a ...