Excel has historically been about organizing text and numbers, but for several years, Microsoft has been working to boost the number of data types the application supports.

Why is my number stored as text in Excel? Excel doesn’t convert numbers written in text into digits if you import data from another source because of the default setting.

Microsoft Excel may be a productivity app that emphasizes numbers, but it has useful tools for text as well. For instance, that handy spreadsheet app will let you wrap text. And getting it done is ...

You can remove leading, trailing, and extra spaces between characters and numbers in Excel using TRIM(), SUBSTITUTE() or Find and Replace.

Excel users have been using Microsoft’s spreadsheet tool for decades to import, organize, and analyze data, but the basic data types have always been limited to text and numbers.

Q. Is there a way to include both a formula and text in the same cell? A. You can include both a formula and text in the same cell in Excel. You can do this in many ways, depending on what you are ...

Often known as the universal data munging tool, Excel is trying out new options for processing messy text as well as entering it more quickly and accurately in the first place.

Center and Left-Aligning Numbers When you enter text into a cell in Microsoft Excel, it aligns to the left, and when you enter a numerical value, it aligns to the right.

You may want to multiply cells or numbers in Microsoft Excel to analyze data. Here's what you need to know to do it.

Use the RANDARRAY() dynamic array function to return random names or other text in Microsoft Excel.