Excel's Find feature offers more than just finding values if you know the right steps.

Step 1 of Microsoft Excel's Lookup Wizard shows the cell range it will search. Microsoft Excel can handle data tables with hundreds or even thousands of rows and columns.

COUNTIF(range,condition) Let’s use this function to count the number of times a membership number occurs within column B, the Membership Number column, of the sheet shown in Figure A.

Isolate a specific value, such as a number value in cells that contain both numbers and letters by using the Excel MID function. Click in the cell where you will display the value you want to isolate.