If you have a list of items in a text file and you want to import data from a text file into Microsoft Excel, you can do that without writing them manually. An option in Excel allows users to import ...

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In this post, we’ll show you how to change text direction in Excel from vertical to horizontal. “Vertical text” in Excel can mean different things depending on how your sheet is set up. Sometimes your ...

Learn the difference between Excel COUNT and COUNTA, plus TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER tricks, so you clean text and totals with ...

When you enter longer text than will fit in a normal Excel cell, the excess text either carries over into the next blank cell or is truncated by adjacent data. You have several options to remedy this.

Microsoft Excel offers several tools you can use when you need to fill a column with the same text or numbers. Instead of completing each cell manually, you can quickly fill in the entire column using ...

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it. I first started using ...