Each Microsoft Excel worksheet is broken up into cells. Each cell is part of a column. Excel's myriad formatting tools let you add colors, formulas and borders almost anywhere in a worksheet. You can ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

Do you want to split a single column of text into multiple columns in your Excel spreadsheet? Using the Text to Column feature, you can choose how to split the column up, fix the width, or split at ...

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 ...

When you add text to a cell in your business spreadsheet, that cell will not widen automatically to accommodate your text unless you change a few settings. This behavior can be frustrating when you ...

When you want to fill a column in Excel with a given formula or value, you can do it the old fashioned way (select cells or the column header, CTRL+V to paste) or use can do it the much faster way by ...

This post explains how to use the new Excel TEXTSPLIT function. TEXTSPLIT() is a Text function in Excel. The purpose of this function is to split a given text string on the basis of one or more ...

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 ...

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