The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...

Now I don't use Excel that often if ever. Now I've been given this project and the easiest way I can figure out for it to work is by doing it in Excel. It not turning out to be that easy. I'm building ...

Here is the deal:<P>We have a script that runs in VBA under Excel right now. It takes an Excel spreadsheet and saves it as a tab-delimited text file. Great. It works. However, ever since the Excel Y2K ...

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Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...