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

Suppose we have a workbook with employee data (employee names) of an organization, as shown in the above image. Column A contains the first names of the employees, column B contains middle names of ...

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 ...

Learn how to use Excel Power Query's extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components with this step-by-step tutorial. You might receive foreign data in the form of ...

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with imported ...

In this post, we will show you how to capitalize the first letter of a text string in Microsoft Excel. When exporting data to Excel, text strings are often not properly formatted. They may appear in ...

The concatenate function may not be as well known as other common Excel features such as IF and VLOOKUP, but it’s still effective, even though it performs a more simple function in nature. If you are ...

The SUMIFS function works in a similar way with text as with numbers, but there are two key differences. First, text in Excel ...

Rarely is formatting perfect when you copy data from external sources into Microsoft Excel. As an example, you might copy business data from an online database only to find unwanted whitespace within ...