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 ...

A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of functions like LEFT, RIGHT, MID, and FIND, leading to some confusing ...

You can add text to a cell in Microsoft Excel the traditional way by simply typing, but there are other ways to get the job done. For example, you can use a formula, or even a function to accomplish ...

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The ampersand symbol is a quick and easy way to combine data in Excel. To explain this method to you, I have created sample data in Excel with the names of some persons (refer to the above screenshot) ...

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. This will be a long tedious process for ...