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Thursday, August 7, 2008

Some Text functions

We will see some Text functions which can be very useful:
1. TEXT() :
This functions formats a number and convert it to Text. For E.g., Cell A1 is having date 1/1/2009. We can convert this date to text in whatever format we like; e.g., TEXT(A1,"MMDDYYYY). The result will be 01012009. Likewise we can convert a number to text like 100 to 100.00 (Text(A1,"0.00"). Note that you may have to specify the decimals.
2. TRIM():
Trim function is used to remove extra spaces from text. Syntax: TRIM("Hello "). Result will be "Hello".
3. LEN():
LEN function is used to know the length of a text or character. It will count the spaces too.
4. UPPER():
This function is used to convert a text to UPPER case.
5. LOWER()
This function is used to convert a text to LOWER case.

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