Have you ever been frustrated by Excel treating blank cells as zeros? It’s a small quirk, but one that can wreak havoc on your data analysis. Whether you’re building financial models, tracking ...

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, ...

Excel’s Text functions are a major time saver if your job entails managing massive data, especially data that’s imported from other sources. Fortunately, all ASCII data is easily imported, but the ...

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...

How to use the new TEXTAFTER() and TEXTBEFORE() functions in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent A common task is to parse or find characters within a delimited string in Microsoft Excel.

This post explains how to use the new Excel TEXTSPLIT function. TEXTSPLIT() is a Text function in Excel. The purpose of this function is to split a given text string on the basis of one or more ...

How to Extract a Substring in Excel Using FIND() and MID() Functions Your email has been sent Learn how to use MID() and FIND() and then combine them to parse substrings from inconsistent data.