The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...

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Tools like Excel and Google Sheets are ubiquitous these days, and learning how to use them more effectively will quickly ...

I published the semantic model from my last post (which has four text columns CustomerId and CustomerName from the Customers table, CustomerId and TransactionId from the Orders table, none of which ...

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let’s put “democracy” at one end of a spectrum and “autocracy” at the other and consider the ...

Have you ever driven in a roundabout? If you live in Franklin County, you probably have. That's because there are 62 in the county, with four under construction and 18 more planned, according to the ...

Question: Can you explain what the lines on the highways and streets indicate? I feel like a lot of people can’t figure it out. Thanks. Answer: I sure can. Pavement markings direct and regulate ...

Recently while doomscrolling on my phone (probably because I could not sleep), I was welcomed into the We Do Not Care Club (WDNC) by founder Melani Sanders, and I have never before felt so seen. Has ...