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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
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Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells ... as shown in the screenshot at the top of the next page. The formula references cell A2 for the Text argument, which contains ...
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The strangest Excel functions you'll never use

D espite its age, Excel continues to evolve with new functions being added over time. There are newer better Excel functions ...
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Learning REDUCE in Excel completely changed how I use spreadsheets

REDUCE allows you to iterate through your data, building your result step-by-step, in the same way a loop operates in a ...