Learn how to extract specific data from Excel cells using formulas, tools, and techniques to clean and organize messy datasets.

An Excel email address list should contain nothing but the addresses themselves. Yet if the spreadsheet received its data from an external form, the column may contain irrelevant text. One cell ...

Excel’s Text functions are a major time saver if your job entails managing massive data, especially data that’s imported from other sources. Fortunately, all ASCII data is easily imported, but ...

Suppose you are a project manager using Excel to track your team’s tasks. You have created a database with columns like Tasks, Assignee, Status, and Due Date. Now you want to ch ...

Excel filters help you find exactly what you want, no matter how big your spreadsheet database is. Here's how to set number, text and data filters.