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Text Functions in Excel

Chapter 2 covers various text functions in Excel, including CONCATENATE, LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LEN, UPPER, LOWER, and PROPER. Each function is explained with its syntax and an example demonstrating its use. These functions allow users to manipulate and format text strings effectively.

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Text Functions in Excel

Chapter 2 covers various text functions in Excel, including CONCATENATE, LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LEN, UPPER, LOWER, and PROPER. Each function is explained with its syntax and an example demonstrating its use. These functions allow users to manipulate and format text strings effectively.

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Chapter 2 - Text functions in Excel

1.Concatenate:

​ The CONCATENATE function is used to combine two or more text strings into a
single string.

​ Syntax: =CONCATENATE(text1, text2, ...)

​ Example: =CONCATENATE("John", " ", "Doe") will return "John Doe".

2.LEFT():

​ The LEFT function returns a specific number of characters from the beginning
of a text string.

​ Syntax: =LEFT(text, [num_chars ])

​ Example: =LEFT("Hello World", 5) will return "Hello".

​ If you don't specify the num_chars argument, it will return the first character
of the text string.
3.RIGHT():

​ The RIGHT function returns a specific number of characters from the end of a
text string.

​ Syntax: =RIGHT(text, [num_chars])

​ Example: =RIGHT("Hello World", 5) will return "World".

​ If you don't specify the num_chars argument, it will return the last character
of the text string.
4.MID():

​ The MID function extracts a specific number of characters from the middle of
a text string.
​ Syntax: =MID(text, start_num, [num_chars])

​ Example: =MID("Hello World", 7, 5) will return "World".


5.LEN():
​ The LEN function returns the number of characters in a text string, including
spaces.
​ Syntax: =LEN(text)

​ Example: =LEN("Hello World") will return 11.


6.UPPER():
​ The UPPER function converts all the characters to uppercase.

​ Syntax: =UPPER(text)

​ Example: =UPPER("hello world") will return "HELLO WORLD".


7.LOWER():
​ The LOWER function converts all the characters to lowercase.

​ Syntax: =LOWER(text)

​ Example: =LOWER("HELLO WORLD") will return "hello world".


8.PROPER():
​ The PROPER function capitalizes the first letter of each word in a text string
and converts the rest of the characters to lowercase.
​ Syntax: =PROPER(text)

​ Example: =PROPER("john doe") will return "John Doe".

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