Reference card
Text functions
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SUBSTITUTE
Text case Used to replace a specific character or string of characters in a cell with a
different character or string.
UPPER
=SUBSTITUTE(text_to_search, search_for, replace_with, [occurrence_number])
Used to convert a specified string to uppercase.
Ex. =SUBSTITUTE(“Google”, "ogle", "od") → “Good”
=UPPER(text)
Ex. =UPPER(“hello world”) → “HELLO WORLD” TRIM
Used to remove leading, trailing, and repeated spaces in text.
LOWER
=TRIM(text)
Used to convert a specified string to lowercase.
Ex. =TRIM(" Hello, World! ") → “Hello, World!”
=LOWER(text)
Ex. =LOWER(“HELLO WORLD”) → “hello world” CLEAN
Used to remove non-printable ASCII characters from a text.
PROPER
=CLEAN(text)
Used to capitalise each word in a specified string.
Ex. =CLEAN("Hello World!") → “HelloWorld”
=PROPER(text_to_capitalise)
Ex. =PROPER(“hello WORLD”) → “Hello World” SPLIT
Used to divide text around a specified character or string. Each resulting fragment
Text search/find is then put into a separate cell in the row.
=SPLIT(text, delimiter, [split_by_each], [remove_empty_text])
SEARCH
Used to return the position at which a string is first found within text. Ex. SPLIT("1,2,3", ",") → 1 2 3
The SEARCH function is not case sensitive.
=SEARCH(search_for, text_to_search, [starting_at])
CONCATENATE
Used to append strings to one another.
Ex. =SEARCH("World", "Hello, World!") → 8
=CONCATENATE(string1, [string2, ...])
FIND
Ex. =CONCATENATE("Hello", " ", "World!") -> “Hello World!”
Used to return the position at which a string is first found within text.
The FIND function is case sensitive.
=FIND(search_for, text_to_search, [starting_at])
Ex. =FIND("World", "Hello, world!") -> #VALUE!
