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Text manipulation is one of the great features of MS Excel. It has a lot of built-in functions to extract desired values from a text. By using different combinations of these functions we can create a complex formula. I have listed a few practical examples which are very useful. Extracting a Door number from an address text.  8314 W. Galvin Lane West Des Moines, IA 50265 68 4th Ave. Neptune, NJ 07753 8 Oklahoma St. Ladson, SC 29456 I will use the LEFT and FIND functions to extract the Door number of an address.  =LEFT(B4,FIND(" ",B4)) Here I am using the delimiter space (" "). The formula first finds a space character which appears after the door number. Then extracts the value whatever if at the left side of the first space.  Extracting a ZIP code from an address  Generally, the ZIP code will at the end of the address. Using the RIGHT function, we can extract the ZIP code  =RIGHT(B9,5) ...

MS Excel has an amazing set of Date and Time functions. By tweaking these functions, we can create a complex and useful formula. I am trying to list down a few practical examples particularly on the Date part, which will be very useful for a moderate to advanced Excel user.  How to find the end of the month for a given date Note that  EOMONTH  will return a serial number. You have to change the format to date format.  =EOMONTH(TODAY(),0) =EOMONTH(DATE(2018,10,10),0) How to find the number of days remaining in a month This is useful for interest calculation on first and last month on any type of loan repayment schedule.  Use DAYS , EOMONTH,  and DATE functions. =DAYS(EOMONTH(TODAY(),0),DATE(2018,10,10)) Number of days remaining in this month or current month =DAYS(EOMONTH(TODAY(),0),TODAY()) Find the number of months between two dates In other words, find the date difference in terms of months. DATEDIF is one of the very ...