If you have data in delimited text files from other programs that you need to get into an Excel workbook, you can use the import wizard to import delimited text files and convert them into usable ...

If a program can output a delimited text file (I’ll get to what that means in a minute), Excel can turn it into a reasonable table. Of course, the text has to be properly prepared. Every line in that ...

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 Excel may be a productivity app that emphasizes numbers, but it has useful tools for text as well. For instance, that handy spreadsheet app will let you wrap text. And getting it done is a ...

These new Excel features for working with text and lists will save you time Your email has been sent One of the reasons Microsoft Excel is so popular for so many tasks that aren’t necessarily ...

Excel’s Text functions are a major time saver if your job entails managing massive data, especially data that’s imported from other sources. Fortunately, all ASCII data is easily imported, but the ...

REGEX is a smarter version of Excel's FIND function, which works well for basic lookups. However, REGEX handles more complex scenarios. For instance, if you need to pull phone numbers from messy text, ...

The Wrap feature wraps text into multiple lines so that you can see all of it, meaning that if there is a sentence in a cell which starched across the column to other columns in the spreadsheet, you ...