Excel Text Functions

This page lists all of the built-in Excel Text Functions.

The functions have been grouped by category, to help you to find the function you need. Each function link provides a full description of the function, with examples of use and common errors.

Note that some of the Excel text functions listed below are new to Excel 2013 or Excel 2016, so are not available in earlier versions of Excel.

Excel Text Functions List

Functions to Remove Extra Characters
CLEAN	Removes all non-printable characters from a supplied text string
TRIM	Removes duplicate spaces, and spaces at the start and end of a text string

Functions to Convert Between Upper & Lower Case
LOWER	Converts all characters in a supplied text string to lower case
PROPER	Converts all characters in a supplied text string to proper case (i.e. letters that do not follow another letter are upper case and all other characters are lower case)
UPPER	Converts all characters in a supplied text string to upper case

Functions to Convert Excel Data Types
BAHTTEXT	Converts a number, plus the suffix "Baht" into Thai text
DOLLAR	Converts a supplied number into text, using a currency format
FIXED	Rounds a supplied number to a specified number of decimal places, and then converts this into text
TEXT	Converts a supplied value into text, using a user-specified format
VALUE	Converts a text string into a numeric value
NUMBERVALUE	Converts text to a number, in a locale-independent way (New in Excel 2013)

Converting Between Characters & Numeric Codes
CHAR	Returns the character that corresponds to a supplied numeric value
CODE	Returns the numeric code for the first character of a supplied string
UNICHAR	Returns the Unicode character that is referenced by the given numeric value (New in Excel 2013)
UNICODE	Returns the number (code point) corresponding to the first character of a supplied text string (New in Excel 2013)

Cutting Up & Piecing Together Text Strings
CONCAT	Joins together two or more text strings (New in Excel 2019 - replaces the Concatenate function)
CONCATENATE	Joins together two or more text strings (Replaced by Concat function in Excel 2019)
LEFT	Returns a specified number of characters from the start of a supplied text string
MID	Returns a specified number of characters from the middle of a supplied text string
RIGHT	Returns a specified number of characters from the end of a supplied text string
REPT	Returns a string consisting of a supplied text string, repeated a specified number of times
TEXTJOIN	Joins together two or more text strings, separated by a delimiter (New in Excel 2019)

Information Functions
LEN	Returns the length of a supplied text string
FIND	Returns the position of a supplied character or text string from within a supplied text string (case-sensitive)
SEARCH	Returns the position of a supplied character or text string from within a supplied text string (non-case-sensitive)
EXACT	Tests if two supplied text strings are exactly the same and if so, returns TRUE; Otherwise, returns FALSE. (case-sensitive)
T	Tests whether a supplied value is text and if so, returns the supplied text; If not, returns an empty text string.

Replacing / Substituting Parts of a Text String
REPLACE	Replaces all or part of a text string with another string (from a user supplied position)
SUBSTITUTE	Substitutes all occurrences of a search text string, within an original text string, with the supplied replacement text

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