This illustrated walk-through (with a demo worksheet) shows how easy it is to create a multi-column search solution using validation lists and conditional formatting. Excel offers numerous ways to ...

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters ...

Each Microsoft Excel worksheet is broken up into cells. Each cell is part of a column. Excel's myriad formatting tools let you add colors, formulas and borders almost anywhere in a worksheet. You can ...

An curved arrow pointing right. This is one tool you must use in Excel. There is no need to download data to a text file and then import it into your spreadsheet. With the "Text to Columns" tool you ...