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 asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...

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 ...

There's more to Excel's Subtotal feature than you might realize. You can add multiple subtotaling functions to the same row, and you can add multiple rows. You probably know that Excel’s Subtotal ...

Most people think speed in Excel means memorizing hundreds of formulas and functions. I thought so, too, until I discovered that just three functions could replace the pile of formulas I used to ...

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