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

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 ...

As Microsoft ramps up Copilot’s capabilities in Excel, the AI tool is becoming genuinely useful for spreadsheet work.

You can add text to a cell in Microsoft Excel the traditional way by simply typing, but there are other ways to get the job done. For example, you can use a formula, or even a function to accomplish ...

Once data is loaded into Excel, Copilot allows users to ask questions in natural language instead of building new formulas. This trick is helpful when exploring unfamiliar datasets or preparing quick ...

Q. I have a long list of usernames that I need to make into email addresses by adding “@mtsu.edu” to the end of each username. Is there a simple way to do this, or will the ending have to be typed in ...

I traded the static results of Flash Fill for dynamic formulas that update automatically.

Excel now supports IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV functions that load external text and CSV files as dynamic arrays, making it easier to refresh and reuse frequently updated data inside a worksheet. The ...

If you have used multiple functions in a spreadsheet and now you want to remove all of them but keep the values, here is how you can do that. There are mainly two ways to remove the formula in Excel ...