As PCMag's resident data journalist, I practically live in Microsoft Excel. I've learned that it's capable of far more than I ...

Excel’s FIND function detects case differences to prevent mismatched IDs, flawed lookups, and hidden data errors.

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...

When you import data into Excel, if Excel determines that one of the values in a column of data contains a string, it might import all values in the column as strings, even though they are really ...

Learn how to use Excel Power Query's extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components with this step-by-step tutorial. You might receive foreign data in the form of ...

Rarely is formatting perfect when you copy data from external sources into Microsoft Excel. As an example, you might copy business data from an online database only to find unwanted whitespace within ...