What is the difference between SUBSTITUTE and REPLACE function in MS-Excel?

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Posted On: Feb 22, 2018

 

The SUBSTITUTE function basically substitutes one or more instances of previous text with the new text. The syntax for this is:

Syntax: SUBSTITUTE (text, old Text, new Text, [instance Number])

Whereas the REPLACE function swaps the part of the text string with another set of text. The Syntax for this is:

Syntax: REPLACE (old Text, start Number, Number Characters, new Text)

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