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How to Convert Julian Date to a Calendar date in Excel

This post will guide you how to convert Julian date to a calendar date in Excel. How do I convert a given Julian Date to a calendar date with a formula or VBA Code in Excel. 1. What is Julian Date? Julian day number is the integer assigned to a whole solar day in the… read more »

Insert Character or Text to Cells

This post will guide you how to insert character or text in middle of cells in Excel. How do I add text string or character to each cell of a column or range with a formula in Excel. How to add text to the beginning of all selected cells in Excel. How to add character… read more »

How to Get Text before or after Dash Character in Excel

This post will guide you how to get text before or after dash character in a given cell in Excel. How do I extract text string before or after dash character in Excel. 1. Video: Get Text before or after Dash Character in Excel You can watch this short video tutorial to learn how to… read more »

Abbreviate Names Or Words in Excel

As an MS Excel user, you might have come across a task where you need to abbreviate different names or words, and there are also possibilities that you might have done this task manually by assuming that there isn’t any other way to do this task, but you assumed wrong because fortunately there is a… read more »

Filter with Multiple Criteria

If you are an valid MS Excel user, you have probably come across a situation where you wanted to filter the data in a separate table with complex criteria. You could do this task manually, which is also acceptable while dealing with a few data items. But if you got a task to filter out… read more »

Extract substring In Excel

This post will guide you how to use Excel’s MID function is a quick and easy way to extract pieces from your text. Use the Excel formula to extract a substring with MID. Note: If you want to extract just a single character at any given time, use the “start” and end positions as your… read more »

How to Split Cells by the First Space in Texts in Excel

Sometimes we may use space to separate texts to different groups in one cell, if we want to split this cell to multiple columns refer to space, we can implement this via ‘Text to Columns’ feature. But is there any way to split one cell to only two cells by the first space in the… read more »

How to Convert Uppercase to Lowercase Except the First Letter in Excel

In excel, words can be entered in uppercase, lowercase or mixed. If we want to convert all uppercase to lowercase (except the first letter in some situations), we can use formula with some letter convert related functions to convert them to proper case. This article will introduce you some methods to convert letters from uppercase… read more »

How to Remove Middle Name from Full Name in Excel

When we get a list of full names, we can remove the middle name for short in some cases. As the middle names are different among the full name list so we cannot replace them by space directly in excel. This article will provide you two methods to remove the middle name. User can use… read more »

How to Convert Text to Time in Excel

This post will guide you how to convert time string to time in Excel. Assuming that you have a list of text string in your worksheet, and you wish to convert these time string to standard time format, how to do it. You need to use an formula based on the TIMEVALUE function, the LEFT… read more »

How to Extract Initials From a Name in Excel

This post will guide you how to get initials from a given name using a formula in Excel. How do I extract initials from names in Excel 2013/2016. Extract Initials from a Name Using a Formula Extract Initials from a Name Using User Defined Function Assuming that you have a list of data in range… read more »

How to Remove Last or Trailing Commas in Excel

This post will guide you how to remove trailing commas from cell in Excel. How do I remove comma character at the end of a cell with a formula in Excel 2013/2016. Remove Trailing Commas if you want to remove trailing commas from you Excel cells, and you can create a formula to check for… read more »

How to Filter Cells Starts with Number or Letter in Excel

This post will guide you how to filter values starts with number or letter in one single cell in Excel. How do I filter in a list those that begin with number or letter using a formula in Excel. Filter Cells Starts with Number or Letter Assuming that you have a list of data in… read more »

How to Convert mmddyy to Date in Excel

This post will guide you how to convert non-standard date formats or text to a standard date in Excel. If you have a date with mmddyy format, and you want to change it as the normal date format as mm/dd/yyyy with Excel Formula. How do I convert the mmddyyyy text to normal date format in… read more »

How to Convert Military Time to Standard Time in Excel

This post will guide you how to convert military time to standard time with a formula in Excel. How do I convert from military time 17:29:30 to regular time 5:29:30PM in Excel.  How do I Convert Standard time to military time with a formula in Excel. Convert Military Time to Standard Time Convert Standard Time… read more »

How to Remove the First/Last Word from Text string in Cell

This post will guide you how to remove the first and the last word from a text string in cells in Excel. How do I use a formula to remove first and last word of a text string in Excel. Remove the First Word from Text String Remove the Last Word from Text String Remove… read more »

How to Remove Prefix and Suffix in Given Cells in Excel

This post will guide you how to remove suffix form a range of cells in Excel. How do I remove prefix from text string in cells with a formula in Excel. Remove Prefix of Cells Remove Suffix of Cells Assuming that you have a list of data in range B1:B5, you want to remove the… read more »

Extract Email Address from Text

This post will guide you how to extract email address from a text string in Excel. How do I use a formula to extract email address in Excel. How to extract email address from text string with VBA Macro in Excel. Assuming that you have a list of data in range B1:B5 which contain text… read more »

Get Workbook Path Only

This post will guide you how to get the current workbook path in Excel. How do I insert workbook path only into a cell with a formula in Excel. Get workbook path with Document Location You can get the workbook path from the document location feature, and copy the location to a cell. Do the… read more »

Extract First or Last N Characters

This post will guide you how to extract the first or last n characters from a text string in one cell in Excel. How do I get the first or last N characters from a string using an Excel formula. How to extract first two or last two characters of a cell with a formula… read more »

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