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 ...

Learn about 10 Text functions in Excel with examples, including Find, Len, Left, Right, Mid, Substitute, Upper, Trim, Concatenate, and Text.

Luckily, Excel offers handy formulas that allow you to convert text into upper case, lower case, title case, and even sentence case with minimal effort.

To capitalize the first letter of a text string in Excel, you can use a formula that combines multiple functions. We show you how to do it.

Text in a cell in Excel is called a text string. Excel provides a number of built-in functions enabling you to select and manipulate text strings in cells.

Q. Is there a way to include both a formula and text in the same cell? A. You can include both a formula and text in the same cell in Excel. You can do this in many ways, depending on what you are ...

$2, $1 tells Excel that I want to reverse the order of those two strings of text, separated by a comma and a space. If I didn't include the dollar symbols, Excel would simply return "2, 1" as the ...

How to Remove Whitespace From a String in Excel. Rarely is formatting perfect when you copy data from external sources into Microsoft Excel. As an example, you might copy business data from an ...

As mentioned earlier, there’s no easy fix for undoing Excel’s automatic conversion for strings it converts to date. You must format the target cell as Text before entering data.

However, when I go to reformat them, Excel -insists- on converting the number to scientific notation--and since I'm editing the string into a non-number format (multiple spaces, parenthesis, etc ...