Text splitting

The TEXTJOIN function is one of the newer ones, until Office 2019 exclusively available to Microsoft 365 subscribers, and it allows joining multiple strings into one by specifying them and then defining delimiters and the option to ignore those that are empty. Since august, the TEXTSPLIT function appeared, and its purpose is to split strings. How to use this function you will find out in the “recipe” that follows…

Extracting words from a sentence

In the “Excel Kitchenette” blog so far you could have met many text manipulation functions. As of August 2022 (unofficially), and officially as of a few weeks ago, Microsoft 365 subscribers have some new functions at their disposal that increase productivity and can help you more easily to retrieve individual parts of a given text, before or after the delimiter.