Introduction to Strings
Strings are blocks of text that appear in Excel, like names of people, names of cities, e-mail addresses, or names of items sold in a store. When we type strings into Excel, we always use quotation marks around them to tell Excel that what it’s about to read is one coherent block of text.
What are String Functions in Excel ?
In Excel, there are multiple string (text) functions that can help you to deal with textual data. These functions can help you to change a text, change the case, find a string, count the length of the string, etc. In this post, we have covered top text functions.
Download Practice files for Text Functions
Download Excel Text Sample Files to move along with the tutorial and master the skill of using LEN Function in Excel.
What is FIND Function in MS EXCEL ?
FIND function returns a number which is the starting position of a substring in a string. In simple words, by using the find function you can find (case sensitive) a string’s starting position from another string.
Syntax of FIND Function in MS Excel
FIND(find_text,within_text,[start_num])
Arguments of FIND Function
- find_text: The text which you want to find from another text.
- within_text: The text from which you want to locate the text.
- [start_num]: The number represents the starting position of the search.
