Numbers that are stored as text can cause unexpected results, especially when you use these cells in Excel functions such as SUM and AVERAGE because these functions ignore cells that have text ...

How to Find Cells With Strikethrough in Excel. For a business leader, Microsoft Excel 2010 can be an invaluable tool for monitoring inventory, recording customer information or keeping track of ...

Excel's "Find and Replace" feature will search an entire spreadsheet or selected cells for your specified text. Excel also offer a "Replace" function.

I use a spreadsheet that includes a list of machine parts identified by both words and numbers—for example, Part 2312. Since the cells contain both text and numbers, how can I sort them in numerical ...

Numbers (and Excel) reads this as straight text. After importing, you can select the column and explicitly set it to text via the Format Inspector > Cell > Data Format, where you choose Text.

You can include both a formula and text in the same cell in Excel.