Fix "fake" numbers, strip hidden web spaces, and join text professionally using Excel's built-in legacy and modern tools.

Sometimes it's not possible to separate data yourself before putting it into an Excel spreadsheet. Often, the information from old data files gets lumped into a single cell. The same can happen if you ...

Q. I read your August 2022 JofA article about changing the case of text in Excel to upper, lower, and proper, but some of my data comes in sentence form. Is there any way to convert those text strings ...

Do you want to split a single column of text into multiple columns in your Excel spreadsheet? Using the Text to Column feature, you can choose how to split the column up, fix the width, or split at ...

Q. I have a list of email addresses that I need to join in one cell, with each address separated by a semicolon. I use the formula =A1&”;”&A2&”;”&A3 or CONCATENATE to create the email group. However, ...

You can take the text in one column and split it into multiple columns using the Convert Text to Columns Wizard. To get started, open the Excel Sheet in which you would like to split a single column ...