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Posts Tagged → String Manipulation

Change Text to Sentence Case

posted in Auditing, Gurus on January 26, 2018 by Kevin Lehrbass 5 Comments

As Puneet Gogia mentions in his post, we can change text using UPPER, LOWER and PROPER functions but we don’t have a SENTENCE function to capitalize the first letter of each sentence. Puneet solves it with a very interesting formula. How exactly does it work? Let’s audit it! Continue reading →

Video 00121_Crazy String Manipulation!

posted in Solutions on February 8, 2015 by Kevin Lehrbass 0 Comments

Look carefully at the picture below for a few seconds…

Crazy String Manipulation

If you extract all numbers, from left to right, you can create a Date/Time value of Nov 28, 2014 5:08pm (and 51 seconds) in Microsoft Excel.
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Sometimes I write a practical 'how to' post and other times I explore a crazy idea and build something unique. I love working with data in Microsoft Excel!

Kevin Lehrbass

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