The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

While INFO tells you about your Excel environment, CELL digs into individual cells and returns details about their formatting ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

The ampersand symbol is a quick and easy way to combine data in Excel. To explain this method to you, I have created sample data in Excel with the names of some persons (refer to the above screenshot) ...

Manually finding and replacing parts of text can be exceedingly tedious for lengthy Excel spreadsheets. Luckily, Microsoft included a couple of useful tools for locating text parts and replacing them ...

You can combine two columns in Excel using several formulas and tools available in the software. Here's how to combine two ...

By default, when you select a formula or source field in a dialog box, Enter mode is activated. You can see this in the ...

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 ...

Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2017. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. Is it possible to ...