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Spreadsheet Text Functions

This document describes various text functions in Excel including LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LEN, FIND, PROPER, REPT, TRIM, UPPER, LOWER, SUBSTITUTE, CONCATENATE, JOIN STRINGS, YEAR that can be used to manipulate strings and extract portions of text. It also provides examples of problems that can be solved using these string functions, such as creating an email address from parts in different cells and using string functions to derive new columns from data in an imported CSV file.

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Spreadsheet Text Functions

This document describes various text functions in Excel including LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LEN, FIND, PROPER, REPT, TRIM, UPPER, LOWER, SUBSTITUTE, CONCATENATE, JOIN STRINGS, YEAR that can be used to manipulate strings and extract portions of text. It also provides examples of problems that can be solved using these string functions, such as creating an email address from parts in different cells and using string functions to derive new columns from data in an imported CSV file.

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Spreadsheet

TEXT
FUNCTIONS
LEFT
()
You can use the Left function when you want to extract the leftmost characters from a
string. Syntax =left(text, num_char)
RIGHT
()
Similarly, you can also use the Right function to extract the rightmost characters from
a string. Syntax =right(text, num_char)
MID
()
Mid function in Excel is used to extract the characters from the middle of a string. Syntax
= MID(text, start_char, num_chars)
LEN
()
Len function in Excel helps you to know the length of a string that is number of characters
in a string. Syntax = LEN(text)

Note – Spaces are included while calculating length.


FIND
()
Find function in Excel is used when you want to know the position of certain characters
in a particular string. Syntax =FIND(find_text, within_text,[start_num])
PROPER
()
Proper function in Excel capitalizes each word in the string that is, it converts the case
into proper case. Syntax =PROPER(Text)
REPT
()
Rept function in Excel is used when you want a certain text to be repeated certain number
of times. Syntax =REPT(Text, number_times)
TRIM
()
Trim function in Excel removes the unnecessary spaces from a particular
string.

Syntax =TRIM(Text )
UPPER
()
Upper function in Excel converts the text into Upper case from lower case.
Syntax
=UPPER(Text )
LOWER
()
Lower function in Excel converts the text into Lower case from upper case.
Syntax
=LOWER(Text )
SUBSTITUTE
()
Substitute function in Excel helps to replace existing text with a new text in a
particular string. Syntax =SUBSTITUTE(text, old_text, new_text, instance
number)
CONCATENATE
()
Concatenate function in Excel helps to join the text of two or more cells.
Syntax
=CONCATENATE(text1, text2….)
JOIN STRINGS
()
To join strings, use the &
operator.
JOIN STRINGS
()
To join strings, use the & operator and within “ ” can include any
text/string.
YEAR
()
Extract the year out from the entire
date
Problem -
1
Use String/Text Functions to create the email address in
E2
Problem -
2
1. Import the file example_problem2.csv in Spreadsheet (download from
Google Classroom)
2. Use string functions to create the columns in blue.

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