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 the ...

Microsoft Excel’s new text functions make working with strings a breeze. A common task is to parse or find characters within a delimited string in Microsoft Excel. Fortunately, Excel has several ...

Microsoft Excel’s new text function TEXTSPLIT() is Excel’s TEXT TO COLUMNS feature in a formula and a bit more. Working with strings in Microsoft Excel is common, whether you’re parsing, concatenating ...

A vendor export landed in my inbox with phone numbers in four different formats, customer names stored last-first, and order IDs, where five of twelve rows broke the house format. I'd already swapped ...

Q. I frequently import messy accounting data into Excel from ERP systems, bankfeeds, and purchasing systems. Is there a faster way to clean and standardize text–based accounting data without relying ...

What if you could transform hours of tedious spreadsheet work into just minutes of streamlined efficiency? Simon Sez IT takes a closer look at how Excel’s most powerful functions can transform the way ...