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. Search finds data in a cell and returns the string ...

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

Sometimes it's not possible to separate data yourself before putting it into an Excel spreadsheet. Often, the information from old data files gets lumped into a single cell. The same can happen if you ...

Q: I receive client files with text on multiple lines that are all part of the same sentence. How can I easily incorporate all the text in one cell? A: You can combine text that is separated into ...

Text overflow can break a spreadsheet’s appearance, as it might look awkward with overflowing texts coming out of a cell. If you have a spreadsheet with this problem, you can fix the text-overflow ...