Combine the SUBSTITUTE and LEN functions

Here is a form recording the personal information of staff. How can we calculate the staff number for each department?We can combine the LENS and SUBSTITUTE functions to realize it. Before starting, let me introduce the LEN function. It can return the character number of the text.Select cell A4. Go to the formula editing box for the Insert Function button, and choose the LENS function.Since we want to know the character number in cell A2, we need to enter “A2” as the TEXT parameter. Cl....

How to set character spacing in WPS Presentation

When making slides in WPS Presentation, we often need to adjust the spacing between characters. By this, we can perfect the layout and make our slides easier to view.So how can we adjust the character spacing of the text content in slides? Take these slides as an example. First, click to select the text that needs to be spaced. Click the right mouse button, then click Font. Finally, click the Character Spacing tab. The Spacing is Normal by default. We can set the character spacing as E....

How can we set the character spacing in Documents

When using WPS Writer for typesetting, we often need to adjust the spacing between characters. How can we adjust the character spacing?Take this document as an example. Select the text content, click Home in the upper menu bar, and choose Settings → Font. Then we can see the Font window. We can also press the shortcut key Shift+D to pop up the dialog. Get into the Character Spacing tab, and change the setting of Spacing. Here, we can choose one of the three default character spacing e....

How to use the Excel MID function

When using WPS Spreadsheets to process data, sometimes we need to catch part of the data from a series of numbers. We can use the MID formula to realize it, to catch up a certain length of characters from a series of numbers. In this example, there is a list of phone numbers. The MID function can extract the long series of numbers, keeping the last seven numbers when removing the first three characters. Select cell D2 and click the Insert Function to pop up the Search for a function d....

How to use OCR in PDF

Optical character recognition, also called OCR, is practical to extract text information from a picture. It can also maintain the content layout in the source picture. The first example will show you how to extract text from a picture.1. Go to the Tool tab and click OCR.2. In the pop-up dialog, click Screen Capture to take a screenshot of a selected area.3. Choose Extract text only.Then, we can get the text from the dialog on the right-hand side.If you've joined WPS Premium, you ca....

How can we add or remove text shading

When using WPS Writer to edit documents, we can add shading to highlight some parts of the text content. So how can we add and remove text shading? Take this document as an example. If we want to highlight the students mentioned in the notice, we can select this part of the content and click the Character Shading command button in the Home tab. By this, we can quickly add a gray shading to the selected content. Gray is the default color. If we want to delete the shading, just click the....

How to find, replace, and locate content

When we are using WPS Document to edit documents, there is always a high frequency of using search and replace features. These features not only can help us locate content, and replace it with specified content but also can replace the format of the text. It saves us a lot of time when we are editing the document, and increases the efficiency of work. Take this document as an example, when we are reading, we may want to quickly know where the character named Bennet has appeared in the ....

How to adjust the overall width and font position of the table in WPS Writer

After we create the table in a document, we can adjust the size of the cells and the position of the text in the table.Take this table as an example. We move the mouse cursor to where the table is located and click the cross button in the upper left corner to select all cells. Click the Table Tools tab and the Table Properties button, then a dialog box will pop up.In the Cell tab, find Size and check Preferred width. We can also adjust the width of all cells after entering the value ac....