File renaming applications are great if you need to rename a lot of files. They can be even better if you can use Excel’s built-in functions such as TRIM, SUBSTITUTE, FIND, LEFT, and RIGHT in order to clean up and generate your new file names. Excel VBA File Renamer for Windows is my take on the idea and can be downloaded here: dailyexcel.net Excel VBA File Renamer for Windows dailyexcel.net Excel VBA File Renamer for Windows enables you to …
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Text in Excel
Text-related features Excel may have a reputation for crunching numbers, but text-formatted data such as names, addresses, and descriptions is often encountered. Excel is also often used for processing data from a wide variety of unrelated databases, applications, and web sites. With those, issues such as numbers formatted as text, text formatted as numbers, multiple text fields combined into a single cell, and broken tables are not uncommon. Further complicating things, Excel functions designed to manipulate text-formatted data are many, …