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How to Use Excel Text Functions to Spreadsheets

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Using Excel text functions means learning to clean, extract, format, and transform spreadsheet data with purpose. This article covers TEXT, LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LEN, TRIM, FIND, SUBSTITUTE, and case functions with practical examples. Readers will gain the skills to manipulate text data confidently.

Microsoft Excel comes with a massive list of functions that allow you to manipulate the text data within a spreadsheet, and even add features that you may have thought were impossible. In the following tutorial, we will show you exactly how to do that using Excel’s text functions. 

How to Access the Excel Functions

As mentioned above, functions are what allow you to manipulate data in your spreadsheet in some capacity. Whenever you need to access a function, you can do so in a few different ways. 

One option is to add a function to a cell using the equal sign. Simply click on the cell where you want to apply the function and type “=” directly in the cell. This should bring up a list of functions available for use in the spreadsheet. You can get to the function you’re looking for by typing its first letter after the equal sign. Since we’re looking for text functions, we would enter “=T” in a cell to view a list of functions starting with ‘T.’ 

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