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Stop wrestling with text in Excel: These 8 tools are game-changers

Fix "fake" numbers, strip hidden web spaces, and join text professionally using Excel's built-in legacy and modern tools.
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10 Text functions in Excel with examples

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, ...
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Change text to sentence case in Excel

Q. I read your August 2022 JofA article about changing the case of text in Excel to upper, lower, and proper, but some of my data comes in sentence form. Is there any way to convert those text strings ...
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How to use the new TEXTAFTER() and TEXTBEFORE() functions in Microsoft Excel

How to use the new TEXTAFTER() and TEXTBEFORE() functions in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent A common task is to parse or find characters within a delimited string in Microsoft Excel.
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
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These new Excel features for working with text and lists will save you time

These new Excel features for working with text and lists will save you time Your email has been sent One of the reasons Microsoft Excel is so popular for so many tasks that aren’t necessarily ...