Essentially the function will convert a numeric value into a text string.

Text function in excel video. Combines the text from multiple ranges andor strings and includes a delimiter you specify between each text value that will be combined. In this example you would use the TEXT function to apply a time format to the cell containing the time value. Luckily Excel provides a quick and easy ways to transform text in a spreadsheet using using native functions.

Well look at this in detail in another video. Format_text is the format we want to apply. However there are times when you need to convert numbers into text and that is where the TEXT function.

The FIND function is used in Excel to locate the position of the required text string within the another available text string. If the delimiter is an empty text string this function will effectively concatenate the ranges. When a cell contains a formula Excel classifies the content according to the result of the formula not the formula itself.

If youve already entered data and Excel has removed your leading 0s you can use the TEXT function to add them back. Real world example with A11 again. For this we just have to select the cell we want to convert and the format we want to convert.

You can use the TEXT function to embed formatted numbers inside text. Formats a number and converts it to text. Select the column or range where youll be putting the values then use CTRL1 to bring up the Format Cells dialog and on the Number tab select Text.

It would look like this. In the second argument format_text you enter the desired format using the codes that the TEXT function can understand. Paste CTRL v the format code into your TEXT function.