JournalofAccountancy

Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

I have used the Excel functions LEFT ... The first argument is “Text,” which is the text string we want to split. The second argument is Col_delimiter, which is the character(s) we want to use to ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

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 ...