MID and MIDB functions are both text functions in Microsoft Excel. MID returns a specific number of characters from a text string starting at the position you specify; based on the number of ...

Q. I have several product numbers that each appear in a single cell in Excel. Each product number contains the product line (the first three digits), the product color (the middle four digits), and ...

Text in a cell in Excel is called a text string. Excel provides a number of built-in functions enabling you to select and manipulate text strings in cells. The easiest way to identify or extract a ...

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 ...

Isolating values in an Excel 2007/2010 worksheet or workbook is common in both error-checking and data analysis tasks. While appropriate even for a small worksheet, the functions that isolate a value ...