Friday, February 8, 2013

Excel Tips & Tricks (Excel ~ substitute Formula)

Let’s say, for example, you need to substitute something within a cell. The immediate example that comes to mind for me is a to replace a space with an underscore (you can see them in the highlighted box below if you look closely). In case you don’t want to use the good old-fashioned find/replace, you can use the substitute formula (found up in the function bar). Or, for simplicity, start typing =substitute. Then, throw on an open parenthesis and select the cell where the offending material lives. Next, add in a comma, quotation marks containing the material one wants to replace, another comma, the material one will be replacing the offending material with, and a closed parenthesis. A visual probably makes this explanation much more bearable:

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