JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
MSN on MSN

Your Excel formulas are silently breaking your data—here's how to fix them

Hidden reference shifts, invisible spaces, legacy function fragilities, and blanket error handling can quietly distort results without warning.
MUO on MSN

Excel finally speaks regex, and it cleans the data I used to fix by hand

I didn't realize how much time I spent on cleanups until regex let me stop.