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These wildcards in Excel are your secret weapon for faster, smarter searches

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters ...
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Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

I have used the Excel ... is “Text,” which is the text string we want to split. The second argument is Col_delimiter, which is the character(s) we want to use to split the text string into separate ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of functions like LEFT, RIGHT, MID, and FIND, leading to some confusing ...
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Your Excel sheets keep lagging because of these 3 formulas

Excel has a wide range of useful built-in functions, but that doesn't mean you should use them indiscriminately. One of the things you can do when Excel is lagging is examine certain formulas to ...