Text Transformations (Format, Extract & more)

🧠 You've learned essential text transformation techniques:

  • Split columns by delimiter (including custom delimiters)
  • Split columns by non-digit to digit and digit to non-digit
  • Add prefix to columns
  • Extract text before delimiter
  • Extract text after delimiter with advanced options (scan from end of input)
  • Capitalize each word
  • Duplicate columns


💡If you have Excel 2016 or 2019 and don't have the "Split Column by Digit to Non-Digit" option, you can extract the ID using Column From Example.


💡The formula route is not as complex as it used to, with new formulas introduced in Excel for Microsoft 365: TEXTSPLIT and TEXTBEFORE/TEXTAFTER replicate the functionality of Power Query's Split Column and Extract Text. (Only available in Excel for M365 and Excel 2024.)

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