VLOOKUP and Search are two functions that Excel uses to search for text. VLOOKUP finds data in a column and returns the contents of an adjacent cell.

REGEXEXTRACT: Find Specific Pieces of Text This function returns parts of text in a cell according to a specified pattern. For example, you might want to separate numbers and text.

Use the RANDARRAY() dynamic array function to return random names or other text in Microsoft Excel.

For many, the INDEX-XMATCH combination in Excel is the go-to method for retrieving a value from a dataset. However, you can ...

Microsoft Excel’s new text function TEXTSPLIT() is Excel’s TEXT TO COLUMNS feature in a formula and a bit more.