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 ...
In this tutorial, we want to find the character of ‘Pig.’ We are going to click the cell where we want to find the character. Then type =Find; bracket. Inside the bracket, we will type “Pig,” which is ...
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 ...
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The top 5 Excel formulas for students

Microsoft Excel is an undisputed king when it comes to working with numbers and data. Whether you're a student or a working ...
Calculate the difference between two values in your Microsoft Excel worksheet. Excel provides one general formula that finds the difference between numbers, dates and times. It also provides some ...