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 ...

Microsoft Excel’s new text functions make working with strings a breeze. A common task is to parse or find characters within a delimited string in Microsoft Excel. Fortunately, Excel has several ...

From step goals to savings trackers, these seven Excel functions solve everyday problems in unexpected ways.

A vendor export landed in my inbox with phone numbers in four different formats, customer names stored last-first, and order IDs, where five of twelve rows broke the house format. I'd already swapped ...

Have you ever thought of the humble SUM function as a secret weapon for advanced analytics? Most Excel users see it as a basic tool for adding numbers, but what if I told you it could do so much more?

UNIQUE is another Excel function that saves me from doing repetitive cleanup every time I work with a large list. It does ...