Numbers that are stored as text can cause unexpected results, especially when you use these cells in Excel functions such as SUM and AVERAGE because these functions ignore cells that have text ...

How to Separate Text From Numbers in Excel. When you open a raw data file in Excel, the program doesn't always recognize the way in which the data is formatted, such as comma-delimited, tab ...

You can remove leading, trailing, and extra spaces between characters and numbers in Excel using TRIM(), SUBSTITUTE() or Find and Replace.

You can include both a formula and text in the same cell in Excel.

Excel has historically been about organizing text and numbers, but for several years, Microsoft has been working to boost the number of data types the application supports.

Choose Text under the Numbers tab of Excel's Format Cells dialog to prevent the program from converting two date-like numbers to a date and month. Screenshot by Dennis O'Reilly/CNET There's also a ...

You can wrap text in Excel in several ways to ensure that all the text in a cell is visible at once. You may also want to edit the cell height.

Text wrapping isn't just for word processors. You can wrap text in spreadsheets too. Here's how to wrap text in Microsoft Excel using two different methods.