What if you could transform hours of tedious spreadsheet work into just minutes of streamlined efficiency? Simon Sez IT takes a closer look at how Excel’s most powerful functions can transform the way ...

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 ...

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. Image: IB Photography/Adobe Stock If you work with imported ...

When you import data into Excel, if Excel determines that one of the values in a column of data contains a string, it might import all values in the column as strings, even though they are really ...

In this post, we will show you how to capitalize the first letter of a text string in Microsoft Excel. When exporting data to Excel, text strings are often not properly formatted. They may appear in ...

Google Maps uses search strings to return lists of locations. When the search string exactly matches a stored location's name, Google Maps shows the site's precise position on a map. For example, the ...

If you've ever tried building a product catalog in Excel, you know the headache — images float over cells, they don't move ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

How to Control Data Conversions in Excel for Windows and Mac Your email has been sent After years of struggling with Microsoft Excel's internal conversion feature, users can now disable Excel's ...