Learn how to extract specific data from Excel cells using formulas, tools, and techniques to clean and organize messy ...

Thanks to Excel’s string functions, parsing is easy, as long as the source values are consistent. String functions, such as MID() need to know where the substring you’re extracting begins and ...

I have two possible types of text string in Excel, either DA3-AJ33S-5P1 or DA3-AJ150S-5P1. I want a formula that extracts the middle part of the text string i.e. the "AJ33S" or the "AJ150S" - the ...

When this is the case, you can use Power Query’s Extract and Split Column features to extract delimited strings into their components. I’m using Microsoft 365 Desktop and Power Query in ...

Regex patterns help search text strings efficiently (e.g., emails, digits, specific sequences) using symbols. Excel provides predefined regex functions (REGEXTEST, REGEXEXTRACT, REGEXREPLACE) to ...

The first part of the formula is =UPPER(LEFT(T3,1)). It capitalizes the first letter of the first word in the sentence. The LEFT function instructs Excel to go to the far left of the text string; “T3” ...