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 ...

I didn't realize how much time I spent on cleanups until regex let me stop.

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 ...

Filters are great tools, but you can’t remove specific items from the results. When you need to do this, try Find All in Excel instead. Microsoft Excel’s Find feature is one of its most flexible tools ...

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

For a business leader, Microsoft Excel 2010 can be an invaluable tool for monitoring inventory, recording customer information or keeping track of business processes. Over time, these Excel ...

Depending on your needs, it may feel time-saving and convenient to count how many occurrences of given characters happen in an excel spreadsheet. Here we show you how to count occurrences of ...