Excel Tutorial – ISTEXT

The ISTEXT function in Microsoft Excel is a useful tool for determining if a cell contains text. This can be helpful for tasks such as data validation or error checking.

Here’s how to use the ISTEXT function:

1. Open a blank Excel spreadsheet.
2. In the cell where you want to display the result of the ISTEXT function, type the following formula: =ISTEXT(value)
3. Replace “value” with the cell reference or value that you want to check for being text. For example, if you want to check the value in cell A1, you would enter A1 in place of “value”.
4. Press Enter to calculate the result. The result will be TRUE if the value is text, and FALSE if it is not.

The ISTEXT function can detect any type of text, including words, numbers that have been formatted as text, and dates that have been formatted as text. For example, the ISTEXT function would return TRUE for the following values:

• Hello
• 123 (formatted as text)
• 4/1/2022 (formatted as text)

On the other hand, the ISTEXT function would return FALSE for the following values:

• 123
• TRUE
• #N/A

For example, let’s say you have a list of values in column A and you want to check if any of the cells contain text. Here’s how the formula would look for the first cell in the list:

=ISTEXT(A1)

This formula would check the value in cell A1 and return TRUE if the cell contains text, or FALSE if it does not.