The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The LEN function calculates the length of ...

Excel’s Text functions are a major time saver if your job entails managing massive data, especially data that’s imported from other sources. Fortunately, all ASCII data is easily imported, but the ...

Microsoft Excel’s new text functions make working with strings a breeze. A common task is to parse or find characters within a delimited string in Microsoft Excel. Fortunately, Excel has several ...

The ISBLANK function returns TRUE if the value is blank and False if the cell is not blank. The ISBLANK function is an information function and will locate an empty cell. The formula for the ISBLANK ...

Learn how to use MID() and FIND() and then combine them to parse substrings from inconsistent data. Parsing data is a common task in Excel. For the most part, you’ll do so when you need to work with ...