Excel spreadsheets are a daunting affair for many. And indeed, when you are confronting dozens of rows and columns comprising hundreds if not thousands of cells filled with all sorts of data, it's ...

Scanning Excel spreadsheets by hand is a recipe for a headache. Whether you're flagging keywords or validating IDs, the SEARCH function is your best tool for "reading" text inside a cell. Here's how ...

VLOOKUP and Search are two functions that Excel uses to search for text. VLOOKUP finds data in a column and returns the contents of an adjacent cell. Search finds data in a cell and returns the string ...

From step goals to savings trackers, these seven Excel functions solve everyday problems in unexpected ways.

This illustrated walk-through (with a demo worksheet) shows how easy it is to create a multi-column search solution using validation lists and conditional formatting. Excel offers numerous ways to ...

Have you ever been working in Excel and thought, "Wait, which function should I use for this?" You search, open an explanation site, try to adapt it to your own table, get an error, and search again.

Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...