The document provides information about text functions in Excel including CLEAN, CHAR, and EXACT functions. CLEAN removes non-printable characters from text. CHAR translates a number to its corresponding character. EXACT compares two strings and returns TRUE if they are exactly the same, ignoring case sensitivity. The document was produced by comixie.com for an Excel workshop on text functions.

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CLEAN function

4. Description
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The CLEAN function removes all non-printable characters from a text. It was created to remove
the first 32 non-printable characters in the 7bit ASCII code - values 0 to 31. Also, according to
Microsoft, additional non-printable characters in the Unicode set - values 127, 129, 141, 143,
144, and 157 cannot be remove with this function.
SYNTAX: CLEAN(text_to_clean)
EXAMPLE:
=CLEAN(A5)
=CLEAN(SUBSTITUTE(A5,CHAR(127),””)

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CHAR function

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The CHAR function takes a number between 1 and 255 specifying the character from the
character set used on your computer and translate it into character.
SYNTAX: CHAR(numeric_value_of_the_character)
EXAMPLE:
=CHAR(66) displays the 66 character in the set - B
=CHAR(HEX2DEC(41)) displays the 65 character in the set - A
=CHAR(67) displays the 67 character in the set - C

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EXACT function

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The EXACT function compares two string and return TRUE if the two string are exactly the
same. This function doesn’t consider formatting but is case sensitive.
SYNTAX: EXACT(text1, text2)
EXAMPLE:
=EXACT(“This is ”,”not the same”) FALSE
=EXACT(“NOT THE SAME”,”not the same”) FALSE
=EXACT(“THIS IS ok”, “THIS IS ok”) TRUE
=EXACT(“this is A”,”this is ” & char(65)) TRUE ~ char(65) is A

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