Speed up Excel cleanup with smarter wildcards. We compare three methods and show start or end matching your lists actually need.

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Q. I read your August 2022 JofA article about changing the case of text in Excel to upper, lower, and proper, but some of my data comes in sentence form. Is there any way to convert those text strings ...

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, overwhelmed by the chaos of mixed data—names, IDs, codes—all crammed into single cells? It’s a common frustration for anyone managing large datasets in ...

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 ...