REPLACEB Function Explained
The REPLACEB
Function in Microsoft Excel replaces part of a text string, based on the number of characters you specify, with a different text string. It takes three arguments: old_text
, start_num
, and num_chars
. old_text
is the text string that contains the characters you want to replace. start_num
is the position of the character in old_text
that you want to replace with the new text string. num_chars
is the number of characters you want to replace.
REPLACEB Function Syntax
REPLACEB(old_text, start_num, num_chars, new_text)
- old_text: The text string that contains the characters you want to replace.
- start_num: The position of the first character you want to replace.
- num_chars: The number of characters you want to replace.
- new_text: The text string that will replace characters in old_text.