The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...

Say that you have hundreds of similar Excel workbooks in a folder and you need to globally change “2009 Budget” to “2010 Budget” in all of the workbooks. This will be a long tedious process for ...

Using the find and replace ability in Microsoft Excel 2010, you can quickly replace duplicate letters, words and cells in a spreadsheet document of any size. The following also applies to previous ...

Learn Paste Special math, Flash Fill patterns, Go To Special filters, and the F4 shortcut to clean data fast and share Excel ...

The ampersand symbol is a quick and easy way to combine data in Excel. To explain this method to you, I have created sample data in Excel with the names of some persons (refer to the above screenshot) ...

Microsoft Excel 2010 does not include a bullet button on the command ribbon. However, you can still create an indented, bulleted list using shortcut keystrokes. Microsoft Office also allows you to ...

Q. I have a long list of usernames that I need to make into email addresses by adding “@mtsu.edu” to the end of each username. Is there a simple way to do this, or will the ending have to be typed in ...

Excel is packed with functions, but if you're still relying on VLOOKUP, nested IF statements, or CONCATENATE, you're making your spreadsheets harder to manage than they need to be. Microsoft has newer ...