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 ...

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 ...

VLOOKUP and Search are two functions that Excel uses to search for text. VLOOKUP finds data in a column and returns the contents of an adjacent cell. Search finds data in a cell and returns the string ...

To clean up the messy data, it needs to be loaded into the Power Query Editor.

You can split cells into columns in Excel using the "Text to Columns" tool. Excel gives you two ways to split cells into columns: using delimiters, or using a manual fixed width. Splitting cells into ...