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