TEXT formulas

(Text Functions)

Excel does not only perform financial calculations.  There are several text functions which come in useful in the workplace and can save endless time.

CONCAT / CONCATENATE Joins a list or range of text strings (joins two or more cells together)
UPPER Converts the text to uppercase
LOWER Converts the text to lower case
PROPER Converts the text to proper case.  The first letter in each word to uppercase and the other letters to lower case
LEFT Returns the specified number of characters from the start of a text string
MID Returns the characters from the middle of a text string, given a starting position and length
RIGHT Returns the specified number of characters from the end of a text string