Tag Archives: SEARCH

Text manipulation with Excel functions

Posted on July 23, 2016 by MF

We talked about RIGHT, LEFT, MID, UPPER, LOWER, PROPER, FIND, SEARCH, REPLACE and SUBSTITUTE in the past few weeks.  Now it’s time to put every thing together to solve a problem.  This is actually the most amazing part of using … Continue reading →

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FIND vs. SEARCH

Posted on July 3, 2016 by MF

In many situations, we use either FIND or SEARCH together with LEFT, RIGHT, MID to achieve what we need.  A typical example is to extract the first name and the last name from a full name where a coma acts as … Continue reading →

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Make impossible possible

Posted on February 20, 2016 by MF

Convert text of specific pattern like “1d 2h 3m 4s” into real time (26:03:04) in Excel To kick start the Year of Monkey, let’s challenge the apparently impossible… Do you think it is not possible in Excel?  If you do, you … Continue reading →

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