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Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

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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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

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 ...
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Learning REDUCE in Excel completely changed how I use spreadsheets

REDUCE allows you to iterate through your data, building your result step-by-step, in the same way a loop operates in a programming language. Instead of scattering your intermediate calculations ...
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My 6 favorite Excel features that almost nobody talks about

This feature works best when the columns you want to visualize are adjacent to each other, so you may need to rearrange your ...

How to move highlighted cells in Excel

This guide describes how to move highlighted cells in Excel in Windows 11/10 using drag and drop, cut and paste, and other ...