Useful Text Functions to Build Usernames And/or Passwords

We recommend the following useful text functions if you are looking to take Sheet data and build usernames or passwords:

=CONCATENATE(string1, string2) or the & argument to glue together string values.

=LEFT(string, N) to pull the leftmost N characters from a string.

=RIGHT(string, N) to pull the rightmost N characters from a string.

=LOWER(string) to drop a string into lowercase

=RANDBETWEEN(lowNumber, highNumber) to generate a random number between two numbers

Example:

Let the values in row 2, column D be First name (Tyrell),  E be Last name (Maccombs) and Y be Student ID (21043543).

The formula:

=LOWER(LEFT(D2, 1)&E2&RIGHT(Y2,4)&"@myschool.org"))

...will produce:

[e-mail]