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Excel Text Functions

The document describes various text functions in Excel including CONCATENATE, LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LEN, FIND, REPLACE, UPPER, LOWER, PROPER, TRIM, SUBSTITUTE, TEXT, CONVERT, EXACT, SEARCH, CLEAN, CHAR, and UNICODE. It provides the syntax and examples of using each function to manipulate and analyze text in Excel.

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Excel Text Functions

The document describes various text functions in Excel including CONCATENATE, LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LEN, FIND, REPLACE, UPPER, LOWER, PROPER, TRIM, SUBSTITUTE, TEXT, CONVERT, EXACT, SEARCH, CLEAN, CHAR, and UNICODE. It provides the syntax and examples of using each function to manipulate and analyze text in Excel.

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Excel Text Functions

CONCATENATE (or CONCAT)

Syntax: CONCATENATE(text1, [text2], ...)

Example:

=CONCATENATE("Hello", " ", "World") // Returns "Hello World"

=CONCATENATE(A1, " ", B1) // Concatenates the contents of cells A1 and B1 with a space in between.

LEFT

Syntax: LEFT(text, num_chars)

Example:

=LEFT("Excel Functions", 5) // Returns "Excel"

=LEFT(A1, 3) // Returns the leftmost 3 characters from the text in cell A1.

RIGHT

Syntax: RIGHT(text, num_chars)

Example:

=RIGHT("Excel Functions", 8) // Returns "Functions"

=RIGHT(A1, 6) // Returns the rightmost 6 characters from the text in cell A1.

MID

Syntax: MID(text, start_num, num_chars)

Example:

=MID("Excel Functions", 7, 9) // Returns "Functions"


=MID(A1, 2, 4) // Returns 4 characters from cell A1, starting at the 2nd character.

LEN

Syntax: LEN(text)

Example:

=LEN("Excel") // Returns 5, as "Excel" has 5 characters.

=LEN(A1) // Returns the number of characters in cell A1.


FIND

Syntax: FIND(find_text, within_text, [start_num])

Example:

=FIND("lo", "Hello") // Returns 3, as "lo" starts at the 3rd position in "Hello."

=FIND("apple", A1, 2) // Searches for "apple" in cell A1 starting at the 2nd position.

REPLACE

Syntax: REPLACE(old_text, start_num, num_chars, new_text)

Example:

=REPLACE("Hello World", 7, 5, "Excel") // Returns "Hello Excel"

=REPLACE(A1, 2, 3, "New") // Replaces characters in cell A1 starting at the 2nd position with "New."

UPPER, LOWER, and PROPER

These functions are used to change the case of text.

• UPPER(text) converts text to uppercase.

• LOWER(text) converts text to lowercase.

• PROPER(text) capitalizes the first letter of each word.

=UPPER("hello") // Returns "HELLO"

=LOWER("WORLD") // Returns "world"

=PROPER("this is a test") // Returns "This Is A Test"

TRIM

Syntax: TRIM(text)

Example:

=TRIM(" Excel ") // Removes leading and trailing spaces, resulting in "Excel"

=TRIM(A1) // Removes extra spaces from the text in cell A1.

SUBSTITUTE

Syntax: SUBSTITUTE(text, old_text, new_text, [instance_num])

Example:

=SUBSTITUTE("This is a test.", "is", "was") // Returns "Thwas was a test."

=SUBSTITUTE(A1, "apple", "orange", 2) // Replaces the second occurrence of "apple" with "orange" in cell A1.

TEXT
Syntax: TEXT(value, format_text)

Example:

=TEXT(TODAY(), "dd-mmm-yyyy") // Returns the current date in the format "28-Sep-2023".

=TEXT(A1, "0.00") // Formats the number in cell A1 with two decimal places.

CONVERT

Syntax: CONVERT(text, from_unit, to_unit)

Example:

=CONVERT("25.4", "mm", "in") // Converts 25.4 millimeters to inches, returning approximately 1.

=CONVERT(A1, "km", "mi") // Converts the value in cell A1 from kilometers to miles.

EXACT

Syntax: EXACT(text1, text2)

Example:

=EXACT("Excel", "excel") // Returns FALSE because the two strings are not exactly the same case-sensitive.

=EXACT(A1, B1) // Checks if the text in cells A1 and B1 are exactly the same.

SEARCH

Syntax: SEARCH(find_text, within_text, [start_num])

Example:

=SEARCH("Excel", "Microsoft Excel is powerful") // Returns 11, as "Excel" starts at the 11th position.

=SEARCH("dog", A1, 3) // Searches for "dog" in cell A1 starting at the 3rd position.

CLEAN

Syntax: CLEAN(text)

Example:

=CLEAN("This is a" & CHAR(7) & "test.") // Removes non-printable characters and returns "This is a test."

=CLEAN(A1) // Cleans the text in cell A1 from non-printable characters.

CHAR

Syntax: CHAR(number)

Example:

=CHAR(65) // Returns "A" because the character code 65 corresponds to the letter "A" in the ASCII character set.

=CHAR(A1) // If cell A1 contains the value 72, it will return "H".


UNICODE

Syntax: UNICODE(text)

=UNICODE("A") // Returns 65 because "A" has a Unicode value of 65.

=UNICODE(A1) // If cell A1 contains the text "H", it will return 72.

=UNICODE("こんにちは") // Returns 12371 because it represents the Unicode value of the first character "こ" in
the Japanese greeting.

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