{"id":5997,"date":"2017-02-28T22:16:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/?p=5997"},"modified":"2023-11-30T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:57:00","slug":"getting-the-length-of-text-with-excels-len-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/getting-the-length-of-text-with-excels-len-formula\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the length of text with Excel’s LEN Formula"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does it do?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Gives you the number of characters of the text<\/p>\n

Formula breakdown:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

=LEN(text<\/span><\/span><\/span>)<\/p>\n

What it means:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

=LEN(text that you want to get the number of characters<\/span>)<\/p>\n

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There are times when you need to get the number of characters within\u00a0a cell in Excel. \u00a0Thankfully this is very easy to do with Excel’s\u00a0LEN (Length) formula!<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can use the LEN function in Excel to count<\/strong> all characters<\/strong> in a cell, including letters, numbers, special characters, and all spaces.<\/p>\n

The LEN function can be used as a data cleansing technique to find leading or trailing spaces or can be nested with other TEXT functions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I explain how you can do this below:<\/p>\n

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