{"id":816,"date":"2019-04-19T14:52:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/?p=816"},"modified":"2019-04-19T14:52:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:52:45","slug":"the-len-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/the-len-function\/","title":{"rendered":"The LEN Function"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It returns the number of characters in a text string.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The syntax of the function is the following: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> <strong>LEN<\/strong><em>(<span><b>text<\/b><\/span><\/em>) <\/p><cite><font color=\"#191e23\"><span><b>text<\/b><\/span><\/font>: The text whose length you want to find. Spaces count as characters.<br><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click on the button to practice using this function, with the help of our <strong>Online Assessment Tool<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"button-practice-container\" ><a class=\"button button-primary button-practice\" style=\"height:auto\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-content\/plugins\/unlimited-integration\/run.php?id=RWFYQlZIaUdTSytoVUNCMjA2YWJsLzZRbW9GajVGVW5UeE81T0pQZnppZnQ3RmRLNVhxOU9saUNPZVpzSm16OA==&b=Qzk4dGVuMkVKRWV1RmlYcTRBNk1saDBEem9KVnh1SDNTNWdabzVxSTdIbHRKNXZ1S1pBS3dLamFOR3VjZjIzWmJrUFpEcWxHd0lxUDBUNE9uR3JzVUJDREFnVEVWUTF1SldraUZNSHZMQTQ9\">Practice<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Here is an example of how to use the LEN function:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In column B calculate the length of the words in column A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Use the LEN function to calculate the length of a word (Excel 2016)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vKoyTcCovvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It returns the number of characters in a text string.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[93,94],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-functions","tag-len","tag-text-functions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}