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 LEN function calculates the length of ...

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 ...

Use the RANDARRAY() dynamic array function to return random names or other text in Microsoft Excel. The recent article How to generate random letters in Excel shows you how to generate random letters.

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 ...

When you're working with data in Excel, certain tasks can feel unnecessarily tedious. Maybe you need to split a column of full names into separate first and last name columns, or combine text from ...

Microsoft Excel remains a cornerstone for data analysts, offering a wide array of functions to streamline workflows and enhance data accuracy. In this deep dive, Mo Chen highlights ten essential Excel ...