Have you ever felt like Excel’s lookup functions are more of a puzzle than a solution? If you’ve wrestled with the quirks of VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP, you’re not alone. But here’s the good news: Microsoft ...

Wildcards in Microsoft Excel let you search for partial matches, broaden your filters, and create formulas that reference cells containing certain strings. They represent non-specified characters to ...

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 ...