Not all sort tasks in Microsoft Excel begin with the characters to the left, but getting around that issue is easier than you think. Susan Harkins shows you how.

Learn about 10 Text functions in Excel with examples, including Find, Len, Left, Right, Mid, Substitute, Upper, Trim, Concatenate, and Text.

Learn how to extract specific data from Excel cells using formulas, tools, and techniques to clean and organize messy datasets.

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 ...

Discover Excel’s newest features: advanced text analysis and seamless Forms integration for a smoother data experience.

Often known as the universal data munging tool, Excel is trying out new options for processing messy text as well as entering it more quickly and accurately in the first place.

An Excel email address list should contain nothing but the addresses themselves. Yet if the spreadsheet received its data from an external form, the column may contain irrelevant text.