LEFT, RIGHT and FIND

Strings and things Think spreadsheets and you normally think numbers. However they are good at many processing tasks including text processing. Here we use a simple example from by Sumit Bansal in trumpexcel.com, extracting the first word from a cell. The article...

Looking up …

Looking up and extracting data from tables of numbers and strings is one of those things that most serious data analysts need to do on a regular basis. If you’re familiar with Excel, you may have come across VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP and more recently XLOOKUP. Each of...