Fix "fake" numbers, strip hidden web spaces, and join text professionally using Excel's built-in legacy and modern tools.

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 ...

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 ...

You can add alt text descriptions in Excel to any kind of illustration, including photos, screenshots, shapes, 3D models, and Smart Art. Alt text is a sentence or two that describes an image you've ...

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 ...

Q. I have a long list of usernames that I need to make into email addresses by adding “@mtsu.edu” to the end of each username. Is there a simple way to do this, or will the ending have to be typed in ...

Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? This post shows how to change the character encoding in Excel or ...

Excel now supports IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV functions that load external text and CSV files as dynamic arrays, making it easier to refresh and reuse frequently updated data inside a worksheet. The ...

Excel's text formatting capabilities can make the results of your financial, statistical or scientific spreadsheet calculations more esthetically pleasing and easier to follow. You can use one of ...

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 ...