Regular expressions (or REGEX) are search patterns that can be used to check if a string of text conforms to a given pattern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recently Microsoft has introduced a game-changing set of functions in it’s Excel spreadsheet software that harness the power of Regular Expressions (REGEX) to streamline data extraction, cleaning, and ...

Q. I have a list of email addresses that I need to join in one cell, with each address separated by a semicolon. I use the formula =A1&”;”&A2&”;”&A3 or CONCATENATE to create the email group. However, ...

The REPT function in Microsoft Excel is a Text function, and its purpose is to repeat text a given number of times. The formula for the REPT function is REPT(text, number_times). When using the REPT ...

Use Excel data validation to prevent duplicate values in a column Your email has been sent Prevent duplicates before they happen by combining a simple function with data validation. Excel has built-in ...