JournalofAccountancy

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 ...
TechRepublic

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 ...
GizChina

Microsoft enhances Excel with text analysis and Forms integration

Microsoft has introduced exciting updates to Excel, focusing on advanced text analysis and the seamless integration of Microsoft Forms. These updates aim to make Excel even more versatile and ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...

Excel’s New Clean Data Button Will Save You Hours : But There’s a Catch

Is Excel's Clean Data button the ultimate time-saver for messy spreadsheets? Find out how it works, its quirks, and how it compares to Power Query ...
MUO on MSN

These wildcards in Excel are your secret weapon for faster, smarter searches

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters ...
MrExcel on MSN

Testing Excel XLOOKUP’s Approximate Match on Text Values

Find out how Excel’s XLOOKUP handles approximate matches when working with text values. We put it to the test so you don’t have to. #ExcelTips #Xlookup #DataAnalysis #ExcelTutorial ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Make Text Over Images With Microsoft Excel

Graphics editing software is used to add text over images. You can then insert these edited images into Office Excel 2010, which is the the spreadsheet software from Microsoft. However, Excel 2010 can ...
TechRepublic

6 shortcuts for working with Table objects in Excel

You’re probably familiar with selection shortcuts in Microsoft Excel. There are several that select text, sentences, whole paragraphs, and so on, so it should come as no big surprise that shortcuts ...
ZDNet

Microsoft wants to take Excel beyond numbers and text

Microsoft has updated Excel to allow developers to programmatically create their own custom data types in the popular spreadsheet program. This update isn't aimed at Excel-using business execs but ...
CNET

Keyboard shortcuts speed Word, Excel work

Adding some key combinations to your shortcuts list lets you keep your hands on the keyboard and off your mouse. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' ...