JournalofAccountancy

Using LEFT, MID, RIGHT to dissect Excel cells

Q. I have several product numbers that each appear in a single cell in Excel. Each product number contains the product line (the first three digits), the product color (the middle four digits), and ...
TechRepublic

Use Excel’s LEFT, RIGHT, and MID string functions to extract text from a cell

Bill Detwiler shows you how to extract text from a cell using Excel’s LEFT, RIGHT, and MID string functions. If you can only read one tech story a day, this is it. We use cookies and other data ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...