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When working with text data in Excel, you may sometimes need to add the same text to existing cells to make things clearer. For example, you might want to put some prefix at the beginning of each cell, insert a special symbol at the end, or place certain text before a formula. Continue reading →

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  1. Dear Team,
    I want to add spaces like the expected results,
    thanks a lot in advance:-
    C2160feetRoad
    C41OPP240B
    C284981C12
    G14sunderIndustrialstate
    Their expected results should be as:-
    c2 160 feet Road
    c41 OPP 240 B
    c2 84981 c12
    G14 sunder industrial state

    1. Hi! To make a formula and add spaces, you need to see some kind of regularity or pattern in your data. Unfortunately, I don't see that.

      1. Thanks Sir,
        possible to formula to add space ist after two character,then three character,then three character in a single cell please

          1. Thanks Sir,
            This is only for ist three character, but i need a single formula to make space in a cell after every two or three spaces
            e,g:C2160feetRoad should be as c2 160 feet Road.

  2. Hello,

    I'm attempting to extract the text from many cell notes. The form of the text in each cell note is:
    ABC
    DEF
    GHI

    I setup the following function:

    Function getComment(incell As Range) as String
    On Error Resume Next
    getComment = incell.Comment.Text
    End Function
    ----------------
    When I call the function on a cell, the result is:
    ABCDEFGHI

    How to insert a delimiter such as 'space' or 'comma' in between each line so it looks like:
    ABC,DEF,GHI
    or
    ABC DEF GHI

    Thanks!

  3. Hi
    Grateful if you could please help. I have one cell AB and another cell C. How to add C between AB please?

    1. Hi! If I understand your task correctly, try the following formula:

      =REPLACE(A1,2,0,B1)
      or
      =LEFT(A1,1)&B1&RIGHT(A1,1)
      where
      A1="AB"
      B1="C"
      You can learn more about REPLACE function in Excel in this article on our blog.

  4. I have data from a mainframe and the date fields do not have a / separator to separate the month/day/year. I can use a formula you provided. When I use =LEFT(E2, 4) &"/"& RIGHT(E2, LEN(E2) -4) this works perfectly to put a separator before the 4-character year, if the date is 8 characters in length. example: 11162002 will be 1116/2002 but if the date is 7 characters in length I get this - 6162002 will be 6162/002. If I move the left and right functions ( =RIGHT(E2, 4) &"/"& LEFT(E2, LEN(E2) -4) ) I get this result 2002/1116. This is very confusing to me. I need to count 4 characters starting from the right and insert a / and then count 7 characters from the right again to insert another / to all dates will look like this. 11/16/2002 for a 8 character date string or 6/16/2002 for a 7 character string but I am unable to find a solution. What would these 2 formulas look like. Please provide 1st formula to separate the year and 2nd formula to separate the month/day.

    thank you in advance

    1. Hi!
      For your date 6162002 you can use the DATE formula and extract the necessary data using substring functions

      =DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-6),MID(A1,LEN(A1)-5,2))

      1. this works great, I've only tried a few so far. I would love to learn how this whole formula works - can you break this down bit-by-bit?

        thanks in advance for your help

  5. This does not address inserting from the right.

    I have a series of digits I wand to insert a decimal into from the right by 2 places. Every guide I find only addresses inserting from the left.

    1. Hi!
      Are the recommendations of the paragraph "How to add text to the end of cells in Excel" not suitable for you?

      1. I might have overlooked something, and sorry if I did, but I'm not understanding how I would add a "." into an existing string, 2 places from the right.

        562357 > 5623.57

        2. Well I managed somehow.
          Still don't see how the section you referred to is relevant to my question.
          =RIGHT(REPLACE(M2,LEN(M2)-3+2,LEN(M2),""), 10) & "." & RIGHT(M2,2)

  6. It is not helpful, in order to use this tutorial you have to already be an expert. You need to do the explanation for dummies as well.

  7. Hello. How can I add brackets to all cells. For instance, the cell reads "$Stop1" and I want "{$Stop1}."

  8. If the cell I'm drawing in with CONCAT is currency which ends in ".00" or, say, ".10", it truncates the zero so I get $2 or $2.2 without the remaining zeros. How do I force the 2 space decimal?

  9. Function SplitWords(Txt As Range) As String
    Dim Out$
    If Len(Txt) = 0 Then Exit Function
    Out = Mid(Txt, 1, 1)
    For i = 2 To Len(Txt)
    If Mid(Txt, i, 1) Like "[a-z]" And Mid(Txt, i + 1, 1) Like "[A-Z]" Then
    Out = Out & Mid(Txt, i, 1) & " "
    Else
    Out = Out & Mid(Txt, i, 1)
    End If
    Next i
    SplitWords = Out
    End Function

  10. HI! I need help.

    I want a serial number entered on one sheet to automatically populate within a sentence on another sheet.

    For instance:

    A user enters the serial number on Sheet 1 in Cell B5 as 1234-Q.

    I want Sheet 2 to have a sentence within a cell that says "the service for serial number '1234-Q' is complete". How can I do this? Paste special doesn't exactly work.

    Appreciate any help, thanks!

  11. A B
    1000403 DRUGS ALLOPURINOL
    (ALLOPURINOL USP)
    1000448 TRI ETHYL
    ALUMINUM
    1000465 TRI ETHYL
    ALUMINUM
    1000552 DRUGS: LOSARTAN
    POTASSIUM USP
    (LOSARTANPOTASSIUM)
    1000916 COMBED
    COTTON CORESPUN SEWING THREAD
    70%POLYESTER FILAMENT YARN
    42%
    1001356 BOPP FILMS
    BIAXIALLY ORIENTED POLYPROPYLENE FILM

    in this database, I want to add texts spread over 2-3-4-n nos of Cells at Cl-B against individual entry(first column) in a single cell. Considering the database is huge and number of cell over which text is spread is not limited, use of concatenate may not be helpful.

  12. How can I add text to a formula like =SUM(224/12) so the result would be 18.6 days

  13. How do I add a comma and a space between characters? My cells return multiple characters in one cell (I want that) and I would like to add a comma and space between each character.
    Thank you for your help!!
    Elyse

    1. Hello!
      What formula do you use to get the characters in a cell? We need to change this formula. To write text with commas in another cell you can use the TEXTJOIN function

      =TEXTJOIN(",",TRUE,MID(A1,ROW(A1:A50),1))

  14. I want to add "Address" but can not put as =""Address"" since it does not take it as text. how I can add this ?

  15. how do you enter name, and letter by letter it goes to each next Cell,
    for example : JOHN RAMBO,
    J O H N R A M B O in each cell

      1. i need to copy data from other form and put in an excel sheet, which read each letter for each cell, kind of hard adding list of name to it by using arrow keys, as names from my country had kind of long names...

        1. Hi!
          Sorry, it's not quite clear what you are trying to achieve. Please describe your problem in more detail.

          1. okay, the sheet than i had was make by the printing company and some how if edited it will be printed differently, im suppose to fill in the name from a physical form into the sheet, in which read each letter of the name in each cell, the problem was it become a hassle each time for me to enter the name for example :
            JOHN DOE
            i had to enter the name
            J "ARROW KEY" O "ARROW KEY" H "ARROW KEY" N "ARROW KEY" *BLANK* "ARROW KEY" D "ARROW KEY" O "ARROW KEY" E

            so in the sheet it will be [ J ][ O ][ H ][ N ][ ][ D ][ O ][ E ]

            its okay to type in like this, but if you had 300 names with 21 letter, well... poop..
            it will be helpful if you can solve this silly problem of mine... thank you

  16. Good day.
    Please which formula in excel can ad space after 2nd upper case character.. e.g. "JohnDavis" to appear as "John Davis"

    Thank you

    1. Hello!
      To insert a space before the second uppercase letter, use the formula:

      =LEFT(A1,MATCH(TRUE,EXACT(MID(A1,ROW(2:50),1), UPPER(MID(A1,ROW(2:50),1))),0))&" "&MID(A1,MATCH(TRUE,EXACT(MID(A1,ROW(2:50),1), UPPER(MID(A1,ROW(2:50),1))),0)+1,50)

      I hope it’ll be helpful.

      1. Hi! can ask if this formula is possible to this
        Macaraeg,ChristopherLabanaBautista
        thank you

        1. Hello!
          To split sticky text and insert spaces into it, you need to use VBA. You can try to apply a user defined function

          Function SplitWords(Txt As Range) As String
          Dim Out$
          If Len(Txt) = 0 Then Exit Function
          Out = Mid(Txt, 1, 1)
          For i = 2 To Len(Txt)
          If Mid(Txt, i, 1) Like "[a-z]" And Mid(Txt, i + 1, 1) Like "[A-Z]" Then
          Out = Out & Mid(Txt, i, 1) & " "
          Else
          Out = Out & Mid(Txt, i, 1)
          End If
          Next i
          SplitWords = Out
          End Function

          To insert a space after a comma, use the SUBSTITUTE function.
          I hope it’ll be helpful. If something is still unclear, please feel free to ask.

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