Chapter 8. Text and Data Functions

This chapter describes the text and data functions in Microsoft Excel (see Table 8-1). The text and data functions provide all the tools you need to convert text or numbers and to edit and evaluate strings. When working with imported lists, you might need these functions so that you can divide, combine, or evaluate text.

Table 8-1. Overview of the Text and Data Functions

Function

Description

ASC()

Converts double-byte characters into single-byte characters

BAHTTEXT()

Converts a number into Thai text using the suffix “Baht”

CHAR()

Returns the character for a code

CLEAN()

Deletes all nonprintable characters from the text

CODE()

Returns the numeric code of the first character in a string

CONCATENATE()

Joins several strings into one string

DOLLAR()

Converts a number into a currency value

EXACT()

Checks whether two strings are exactly the same

FIND(), FINDB()

Finds a string within text

FIXED()

Rounds a number to a specified number of decimal places and returns the value as text

LEFT(), LEFTB()

Returns the number of characters starting at the beginning of the text string

LEN(), LENB()

Returns the number of characters in a string

LOWER()

Converts text into lowercase

MID(), MIDB()

Returns the number of characters starting at a certain position

PHONETIC()

Extracts the phonetic (Furigana) characters from a string

PROPER()

Converts the first letters of all words into uppercase

REPLACE(), REPLACEB()

Replaces a certain number of characters beginning at a given position

REPT()

Repeats a string parameter a given number of times

RIGHT(), RIGHTB()

Returns the number of characters in a text string starting at the end of the string

SEARCH(), SEARCHB()

Finds a string within the text, ignoring uppercase and lowercase distinctions

SUBSTITUTE()

Replaces a certain number of characters in the text

T()

Returns text strings

TEXT()

Converts numeric values into text

TRIM()

Deletes leading and trailing spaces from text

UPPER()

Converts a string into uppercase

VALUE()

Converts text (a number) into a numeric value

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