A cluttered Excel sheet can be a nightmare—extra spaces, inconsistent formatting, random text everywhere. But with the right functions, you can clean it up in seconds and make your data actually ...

Microsoft Excel’s new text function TEXTSPLIT() is Excel’s TEXT TO COLUMNS feature in a formula and a bit more.

For example, if you want to insert a social security code in the E1 cell, you can use the “ =TEXT (E1,”000-00-0000″) ” function. Similarly, you can use this function from other number codes.

Use the RANDARRAY() dynamic array function to return random names or other text in Microsoft Excel.