In Microsoft Excel, you are not just able to count characters in a single/multiple cell, but also specific characters in a cell or range of cells.

By using the * wildcard character, you can count cells that contain a specific substring, regardless of what comes before or after it.

This post will show you how to remove the first or last few characters or certain position characters from the text in Microsoft Excel.

Thankfully, Microsoft Excel's COUNTIF formula swoops in to save the day. It lets you count cells based on specific text or conditions, turning your spreadsheet chaos into organized data magic.

This guide provides step-by-step instructions with examples how to extract a substring in Excel using various text functions.

How to Use the Countif & Countifs Functions in Excel. Microsoft Excel 2010 is a powerful spreadsheet program that business owners can utilize to track everything from employee's schedules to ...

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

Duplicates aren't bad, but you may need to know how many times a value is repeated or how many unique values are in a data range. Here's how to tackle these tasks in Excel.