Manually finding and replacing parts of text can be exceedingly tedious for lengthy Excel spreadsheets. Luckily, Microsoft included a couple of useful tools for locating text parts and replacing them ...

Create a table or use an existing table. In this tutorial, we have the text ‘hhans 1997‘ in the text column; we want to substitute the’ h‘ with an ‘s.’ Click the cell where you want to place the ...

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 ...

Most of Excel's functions and tools ignore the difference between capital and lowercase letters, which is fine until a case-sensitive ID breaks your workflow. The FIND function is a strict gatekeeper ...

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions. One of the ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel, wishing it could just do *that one thing* to make your work easier? Maybe you’ve spent hours manually replacing text, trying to filter data with ...

Learn how to use MID() and FIND() and then combine them to parse substrings from inconsistent data. Parsing data is a common task in Excel. For the most part, you’ll do so when you need to work with ...

In this tutorial, we want to find the character of ‘Pig.’ We are going to click the cell where we want to find the character. Then type =Find; bracket. Inside the bracket, we will type “Pig,” which is ...

Microsoft Excel’s dynamic array function XLOOKUP() might completely replace VLOOKUP() and HLOOKUP(). Microsoft Excel’s lookup functions are powerful but often misunderstood because they have a few ...