Working with large Excel files is sometimes a daily task when you run a small business. Excel spreadsheets can contain anything from plain text and numbers to dates and percentages. Excel also enables ...

Let's face it—if you're automating your data workflow with formulas, you shouldn’t be manually rewriting text just to change the case. Luckily, Excel offers handy formulas that allow you to convert ...

Trying to use an Excel Date and Time function, but Excel returns a serial number instead of date; this is because Excel stores dates and times in serial numbers in the backend; for instance, when you ...

To ignore all numbers stored as text, you need to open the Data tab and select the Text to Columns option. Then, select the Delimited option from the Convert Text to Columns wizard.

Mary Ann Richardson explains that when concatenating date and text cell data in an Excel formula, you need to convert date cells to text to avoid unexpected results.

Excel filters help you find exactly what you want, no matter how big your spreadsheet database is. Here's how to set number, text and data filters.