VLOOKUP and Search are two functions that Excel uses to search for text. VLOOKUP finds data in a column and returns the contents of an adjacent cell. Search finds data in a cell and returns the string ...

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Suppose you are a project manager using Excel to track your team’s tasks. You have created a database with columns like Tasks, Assignee, Status, and Due Date. Now you want to ch ...

Manually finding and replacing parts of text can be exceedingly tedious for lengthy Excel spreadsheets. Luckily, Microsoft included a couple of useful tools for locating text parts and replacing them ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers.