Explaining The Excel Substitute Function

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It happens in a few circumstances. I bring data from the internet or some type of document and find myself with a bunch of data that I need to rearrange. Just take a look at this spreadsheet for example. When you look at it, it looks perfectly fine right?

Suppose that you need to change all of the “.TO” to “-CA”, how would you do it? You could use the right function. If the text to replace can be found anywhere in the string, you might need to use the find function as well.

Even easier though is the usage of the substitute function such as follows:

=SUBSTITUTE(TEXT, text to find, text to replace it with)

So in this case that becomes:

=SUBSTITUTE(A2,”.TO”,”-CA”)

You can see the result here:

And download the spreadsheet here

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