Excel - Text Function

Text Function

Text function in excel are functions that are usually associated with text for carrying out various operations. The commonly used text functions in excel are as shown below.

FUNCTIONS USAGE
TRIM()

The trim function is used in excel to remove spaces from text

PROPER()

This function is used to capitalize the first letter of each word in the sentence

UPPER()

This function is used to capitalize all the letters of in the sentence

LOWER()

This function is used to change all the letters of the sentence to lowercase

LEN()

The len function is used to get the number of characters, including white spaces.

CONCAT() or CONCATENATE()

These functions are used to join two or more text that are contained in different column, together in one column

SUBSTITUTE()

The substitute function is used to replace a character or string with another.

REPEAT()

This function is used when you want to repeat a character, text or string in particular number of times.

FIND()

This function is used to find the position of a character, text or string in a particular text or string.

LEFT()

This function is used to extract characters from the left side of a string or text

RIGHT()

This function is used to extract characters from the right side of a string or text

MID()

This function is used to extract characters from the middle of a string or text

SEARCH()

This function is also used search and return number which is the starting position of a substring in a string.

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