The simplest use of the FORMULATEXT function is straightforward formula auditing.

Excel's IF function validates a cell's contents, determining whether it meets criteria that you set. It provides no information beyond what your workbook already contains, but it analyzes the data ...

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 ...

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions. One of the ...

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 ...

Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of functions like LEFT, RIGHT, MID, and FIND, leading to some confusing ...

Launch Microsoft Excel. Create a table or use an existing table from your files. Place the formula into the cell you want to see the result. Press the Enter Key. Launch Microsoft Excel. Create a table ...