Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

Learn about 10 Text functions in Excel with examples, including Find, Len, Left, Right, Mid, Substitute, Upper, Trim, Concatenate, and Text.

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.

In this month’s column, find out how to change text strings to sentence case in Excel.

The CLEAN () function in Excel removes all non-printable characters from a given text string. It is the easiest and the most direct way of removing non-printable characters in Excel.