When you're editing a business spreadsheet, you'll sometimes find a column of data in Excel needs to be split into two columns to improve sorting or extracting records. For example, phone numbers ...

Learn how to use the VLOOKUP formula to compare a maximum of two columns to have common values returned or to locate missing data.

You can combine two columns in Excel using several formulas and tools available in the software. If the columns that you want to combine are empty, you can use Excel's merge function.