Learn to reuse data instead of retyping it so you can boost productivity effortlessly. Excel has tools that can help you make information appear in multiple workbooks without doing a lot of typing.

Q. I receive Excel spreadsheets regularly that contain dates. I have to manually look up the day of the week that represents these dates. Are there any functions that can help speed this process along ...

When you use Microsoft Excel to store and analyze business data, your workbooks and worksheets often contain date information. Although your original data may need to display full month, day and year ...

Learn how to use Excel Power Query's extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components with this step-by-step tutorial. You might receive foreign data in the form of ...

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, overwhelmed by the chaos of mixed data—names, IDs, codes—all crammed into single cells? It’s a common frustration for anyone managing large datasets in ...

This question comes up often in user forums: How do I extract a piece of information from one column and put that extracted information into another? For example, if I have a URL in one column, can I ...

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How to Extract a Substring in Excel Using FIND() and MID() Functions Your email has been sent Learn how to use MID() and FIND() and then combine them to parse substrings from inconsistent data.