Sure, you're a whiz when it comes to manipulating rows and columns of numeric data in Microsoft Excel, but what happens when you need to do the same thing with text? You soon find yourself running into the limitations of Excel's rudimentary search and replace functions, and before you know it, you've gone from life in the fast lane to thump, thump, thumping along the side of the road with a flat tire.

inspector text is an add-in for Microsoft Excel that introduces powerful worksheet formula functions that let you make quick work of any task that involves working with text in your spreadsheet. Not only will inspector text let you find and replace matching text values throughout your spreadsheet, it's fuzzy logic algorithms will even let you determine whether the text in any two cells is similar.

Take search and replace, for example. Microsoft Excel lets you search for specific text, and replace it - and that's it. inspector text, though, expands the power of search and replace to include wildcards, directional search, case sensitivity, and searches based on the order in which target items appear in the spreadsheet!

In addition to pumping up your search and replace capabilities in Excel, inspector text also gives you more firepower by enabling the counting the occurrences of text strings within cells, finding and replacing specific words by their position in a text string, excluding undesired characters, and much more. When it comes to fuzzy logic, inspector text can compare two text strings in your spreadsheet and calculate a score to determine how alike they are.

The worksheet formula functions in inspector text are as easy to learn and use as anything you've come across in Excel! Moments after installing inspector text, you'll be a text and numbers whiz in all of your spreadsheets!