TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER are a few more of my favorite Excel functions to clean messy spreadsheets. Excel's newer text ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with messy Excel datasets, trying to clean up those pesky empty cells that throw off your calculations? It’s a small annoyance that can quickly snowball into ...

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 ...

However carefully you monitor the data you enter and import into Microsoft Excel, and the output of formulas and functions that produce new values, it's easy to wind up with cells that contain one or ...

Microsoft has introduced a powerful new function in its Excel spreadsheet application, allowing users to simplify their workflows by reducing the need for complex formulas. Excel’s latest beta version ...

Microsoft Excel's Clean function strips nonprintable characters from cell text. These nonprintable characters constitute the first 32 characters of the 7-bit ASCI code, which houses the 128 text ...

The ways to easily remove numbers from the left in Excel are not unique to numbers. You can use this same formula to remove other characters from a string of values in Excel. You can also use the ...