Space Character: Remove Last Letter in Excel If It Is Blank

Does this situation sound familiar to you: You compare texts in Excel and they should be equal. But instead, Excel says the two cells are not the same. Oftentimes, there is a hidden space in the end of a text cell. Very troublesome: You can’t really see it because the blank character is at the… Continue reading Space Character: Remove Last Letter in Excel If It Is Blank

LEFT or RIGHT: Extract Text from Cells in Excel

LEFT and RIGHT are string formulas for working on text. You use them when you want to extract some parts of a text. LEFT returns a number of characters of a cell, starting from the left hand side. RIGHT does exactly the same, but starts from the right hand side.