The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...
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 ...
Manually finding and replacing parts of text can be exceedingly tedious for lengthy Excel spreadsheets. Luckily, Microsoft included a couple of useful tools for locating text parts and replacing them ...
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 ...
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Don't trust Excel's COUNTA function to count non-blank cells—here's a better method
Counting non-empty cellsThe COUNTBLANK-COUNTA conflict (and how to fix it)Summary: Choosing the right counting functionIn ...
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