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 ...
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 ...
MUO on MSN

Learning REDUCE in Excel completely changed how I use spreadsheets

REDUCE allows you to iterate through your data, building your result step-by-step, in the same way a loop operates in a ...

How to change Text Direction in Excel from Vertical to Horizontal

Want to change text direction in Excel from vertical to horizontal? This guide describes how to do it in Windows 11/10 using ...
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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 ...