This illustrated walk-through (with a demo worksheet) shows how easy it is to create a multi-column search solution using validation lists and conditional formatting.

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 ...

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.

How to Convert Excel to Text & Set Column Width. Each Microsoft Excel worksheet is broken up into cells. Each cell is part of a column.

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

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 ...

To ignore all numbers stored as text, you need to open the Data tab and select the Text to Columns option. Then, select the Delimited option from the Convert Text to Columns wizard.

Between the 2003 and the most recent versions, the number of rows that can be reached in an Excel sheet has changed significantly. As a result, the VBA codes prevent the portability of your workbook ...