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 output of the above function will be 5, ...

VLOOKUP and Search are two functions that Excel uses to search for text. VLOOKUP finds data in a column and returns the contents of an adjacent cell. Search finds data in a cell and returns the string ...

How to use wildcards with the XLOOKUP() function in Excel Your email has been sent Microsoft Excel’s XLOOKUP() is powerful, but combined with wildcards, it’s also flexible. Lookup functions are great ...

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.

TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER are a few more of my favorite Excel functions to clean messy spreadsheets. Excel's newer text ...

In this tutorial, we want to find the character of ‘Pig.’ We are going to click the cell where we want to find the character. Then type =Find; bracket. Inside the bracket, we will type “Pig,” which is ...

Manually finding and replacing parts of text can be exceedingly tedious for lengthy Excel spreadsheets. Luckily, Microsoft included a couple of useful tools for locating text parts and replacing them ...

My approach to PPC is analytical. I realized early in my career that if I focused on developing my ability to manipulate and interpret performance data, the optimizations become obvious. Leaning into ...