Learn how to extract specific data from Excel cells using formulas, tools, and techniques to clean and organize messy datasets.

Text in a cell in Excel is called a text string. Excel provides a number of built-in functions enabling you to select and manipulate text strings in cells. The easiest way to identify or extract a ...

How to Find & Replace Text Parts in MS Excel. Manually finding and replacing parts of text can be exceedingly tedious for lengthy Excel spreadsheets. Luckily, Microsoft included a couple of useful ...

You can also use the TEXT function to pull the number of the day, as we did with the function DAY. To do this, define Format_text as “dd.” See the screenshot below that shows the number of the day in ...

Adding a text to a cell in Excel using Formula requires use of ampersand operator, CONCAT function, or the LEFT, RIGHT, and LEN functions.

Creating a list of duplicate values that’s separate from the data source is easier than ever thanks to Microsoft Excel's FILTER() function.

You can include both a formula and text in the same cell in Excel.