Q. I have an Excel spreadsheet that contains errors because some of the numbers that are part of the calculations are blank or zero. Is there a way to have Excel automatically return something instead ...

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 ...

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 ...

and the previous item in this month’s Tech Q&A “Using TEXTSPLIT to Dissect Excel Text Strings”. The TEXTBEFORE function pulls what comes before a delimiter. The syntax for the TEXTBEFORE function is = ...