Often when you’re working with Excel you will use a calculation that is not available as a built-in Excel function. If you make this calculation repeatedly, you can save having to write the ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

When you're working with data in Excel, certain tasks can feel unnecessarily tedious. Maybe you need to split a column of full names into separate first and last name columns, or combine text from ...

Cells in Excel are referred to using relative or absolute references. A formula with relative references changes when the cell's position does. If, for example, a cell has a formula "=A1" and you copy ...

"A Guide to Microsoft Excel 2007 for Scientists and Engineers," by Dr. Bernard V. Liengme provides a practical and straightforward guide to using functions of Microsoft Excel to their full potential.

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...

Unlike Microsoft Word, Excel 2007 does not include a Change Case feature for quickly converting capitalization styles. However, Excel does have functions that convert text to lowercase, uppercase or ...