Build stable, high-performance dashboards using REPT formulas and UNICHAR symbols instead of conditional formatting.

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

Q. I have a long list of usernames that I need to make into email addresses by adding “@mtsu.edu” to the end of each username. Is there a simple way to do this, or will the ending have to be typed in ...

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, ...

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 ...

The ampersand symbol is a quick and easy way to combine data in Excel. To explain this method to you, I have created sample data in Excel with the names of some persons (refer to the above screenshot) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Microsoft ramps up Copilot’s capabilities in Excel, the AI tool is becoming genuinely useful for spreadsheet work.