SUBSTITUTE Formula in Microsoft excel

 

 

SUBSTITUTE

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Blue text start with "=" is the formula we used

SUBSTITUE FORMULA

 

What Does It Do ?

This function replaces a specified piece of text with a different piece of text.
It can either replace all occurrences of the text, or a specific instance.
The function is case sensitive.

Syntax

=SUBSTITUTE(OriginalText,TextToRemove,TextToInsert,InstanceToUse)
The InstanceToUse is optional, if it is omitted all instances will be substituted.

Formatting

No special formatting is needed.

 NOTE

To cope with upper or lower case in the substitution you can use other text functions such as =UPPER(), =LOWER() or =PROPER() to ensure that the substitution will take place.

Table 1 shows how differing text cases alter the result of the substitution.

Table 1

TABLE 1

Table 2 shows how the =PROPER() function has been used to take account of the mixed cases.

Table 2

TABLE 2