Monthly Archives: April 2019

The PROPER Function

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It capitalizes the first letter of each word and converts the rest of the letters to lowercase.

The MID Function

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It returns a specific amount of characters from a string, starting at a specific position in the string.

The LEFT Function

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It returns a certain amount of characters from the beginning of a string.

The SEARCH Function

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It finds one text string that exists inside another text string and returns the position within the second string, from which the first one begins. It is NOT case-sensitive and allows wildcard characters.

The FIND Function

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It finds one text string that exists inside another text string and returns the position within the second string, from which the first one begins. It is case-sensitive and doesn’t allow wildcard characters.

The EXACT Function

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It compares 2 strings and returns TRUE if they are exactly the same. It is case-sensitive.

The CONCAT Function

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It is used to join two or more text strings into one string. This function has replaced the CONCATENATE function.

The CONCATENATE Function

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It is used to join two or more text strings into one string. This function has been replaced by the CONCAT function. Even though it is still available you should avoid using it because it may not be available in future versions of Excel.

The CHAR Function

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It returns the character specified by a number from the computer’s character set.