Sometimes it's not possible to separate data yourself before putting it into an Excel spreadsheet. Often, the information from old data files gets lumped into a single cell. The same can happen if you ...

Microsoft has updated Excel to allow developers to programmatically create their own custom data types in the popular spreadsheet program. This update isn't aimed at Excel-using business execs but ...

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...

In this post, we will show you how to remove spaces between characters and numbers in Excel. Whether you want to remove leading or trailing spaces or trim extra spaces between words and numbers in ...

The fix for the disposable formula habit in Excel is already on your screen. At the very bottom of your Excel window is a ...

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that the VALUE function in Microsoft Excel is obsolete. You'll probably seldom need to use it on its own, but when combined with other functions, it's still as ...

Type an apostrophe before entering or pasting two numbers separated by a hyphen in Microsoft Excel to keep the numbers from being converted to their month and date equivalent. Dennis O'Reilly Former ...