and the previous item in this month’s Tech Q&A “Using TEXTSPLIT to Dissect Excel Text Strings”. The TEXTBEFORE function pulls what comes before a delimiter. The syntax for the TEXTBEFORE function is = ...

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 ...

How to use the new TEXTAFTER() and TEXTBEFORE() functions in Microsoft Excel Your email has been sent A common task is to parse or find characters within a delimited string in Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft Excel allows you to export spreadsheet data to a number of common formats for use with other applications. If you need to export data to another Windows-based application, chances are that ...

This post explains how to use the new Excel TEXTSPLIT function. TEXTSPLIT() is a Text function in Excel. The purpose of this function is to split a given text string on the basis of one or more ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number. This can be hard-coded inside double quotes or a reference to a cell ...

I know it is possible to import text files and set custom delimiters, but when trying to save my only options seem to be tabs or commas. The database the files will be importing it to is setup to ...

I'm importing a lot of comma delimited text files into Excel - because they all have the exact same formatting, is there a way to tell Excel to process all of them the same way? (ie, what fields to ...