Master Text Functions in Excel: The COMPLETE Guide

This is the Master Text Functions in Excel guide you've been waiting for! Stop cleaning messy data manually. In this complete, step-by-step tutorial, you will master every essential Excel text function needed for data analysis, reporting, and standardization. We cover how to extract specific information (names, IDs), clean up inconsistent text (remove spaces, change case), and perform advanced manipulation using combined formulas like ISNUMBER(SEARCH()). What You Will Master: Separating first names, last names, and middle initials. Finding text based on dynamic characters (commas, spaces). Replacing or substituting any word or character instantly. Standardizing text case across thousands of cells. ⏱️ VIDEO CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Introduction 0:16 - Using ampersand operator (&) to combine text 0:59 - 3 common ways to combine text - space, comma and line-break 1:45 - CONCAT and CONCATENATE Functions 2:36 - TEXTJOIN Function, better than CONCAT 3:09 - TRIM Function to remove extra spaces 4:07 - LEN Function to count number of characters 4:47 - FIND & SEARCH lookup functions 5:30 - SUBSTITUTE & REPLACE 7:36 - Extract text using LEFT, RIGHT & MID functions 9:17 - TEXT function to convert dates to formatted text 10:38 - TEXT function to convert numbers to formatted text 11:46 - UPPER, LOWER, PROPER functions to convert case Ready to master your data? Hit subscribe for more professional Excel training!