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 ...

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters ...

Find and Replace is a useful feature in the Office suite programs which allows replacing an existing text with a new text. However, it can also be used to find and replace the color of the text. You ...

Q. I am trying to create a formula in our accounting system, but I keep getting errors. What can I do to get the formula to work? A. All Excel users know how powerful formulas are, but sometimes it ...

Q. I have an Excel spreadsheet that contains errors because some of the numbers that are part of the calculations are blank or zero. Is there a way to have Excel automatically return something instead ...

Advanced Excel Find & Replace 2.1 ($19.95 direct) provides the search-and-replace options that Microsoft should have built into Excel. Unlike Excel's native approach, Find & Replace lets you search in ...

This truly GLOBAL find and replace will help. Say that you have hundreds of similar Excel workbooks in a folder and you need to globally change “2009 Budget” to “2010 Budget” in all of the workbooks.

Excel is packed with functions, but if you're still relying on VLOOKUP, nested IF statements, or CONCATENATE, you're making your spreadsheets harder to manage than they need to be. Microsoft has newer ...