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

Learn how to use the new Microsoft Excel REGEX functions to easily extract, clean and format data for easy data visualization and analysis ...

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

The most basic example of a GETPIVOTDATA formula in Microsoft Excel is when the function is used to retrieve a grand total of ...

You can also use the TEXT function to pull the number of the day, as we did with the function DAY. To do this, define Format_text as “dd.” See the screenshot below that shows the number of the day in ...

An Excel email address list should contain nothing but the addresses themselves. Yet if the spreadsheet received its data from an external form, the column may contain irrelevant text. One cell ...

Q. I read your August 2022 JofA article about changing the case of text in Excel to upper, lower, and proper, but some of my data comes in sentence form. Is there any way to convert those text strings ...