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 ...

This illustrated walk-through (with a demo worksheet) shows how easy it is to create a multi-column search solution using validation lists and conditional formatting. Excel offers numerous ways to ...

VLOOKUP has been the go-to function for looking up data in Excel for years, but it comes with limitations. You can only search in the leftmost column and return values to the right. If your lookup ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

If a cell contains some text separated by a comma or any other mark, and you want to split them into multiple columns, you should follow this guide. This article will help you split comma-separated ...

An curved arrow pointing right. This is one tool you must use in Excel. There's no need to download data to a text file and then import it into your spreadsheet. With the "Text to Columns" tool you ...

Each Microsoft Excel worksheet is broken up into cells. Each cell is part of a column. Excel's myriad formatting tools let you add colors, formulas and borders almost anywhere in a worksheet. You can ...