{"id":49135,"date":"2025-04-10T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=49135"},"modified":"2025-04-10T16:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:35:49","slug":"excel-the-t-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/excel-the-t-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel: the t function"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Excel: the tutor mentions another interesting function.<\/h2>\n<p>\nIn Excel, the t function seems to return the contents of a cell if the cell contains text, but an empty string, aka &#8220;&#8221;, otherwise. Then, what might qualify as text?<\/p>\n<p>\nIf a letter is within a number, or at the back or the front, such as a123, 1a23, or 123a, the entry, it seems, is interpreted as text. However, 1.145 seems not to be. &#8220;1.145&#8221;, however, seems to be interpreted as text, in my experience.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/t-function-fb83aeec-45e7-4924-af95-53e073541228\">support.microsoft.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Excel: the tutor mentions another interesting function. In Excel, the t function seems to return the contents of a cell if the cell contains text, but an empty string, aka &#8220;&#8221;, otherwise. Then, what might qualify as text? &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/excel-the-t-function\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Excel: the t function<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1583],"tags":[3617],"class_list":["post-49135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel","tag-excel-text-functions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49139,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49135\/revisions\/49139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}