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How to Use the VALUE Function in Microsoft Excel

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.
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Microsoft Excel’s Latest AI Trick : Say Goodbye to Manual Data Entry

Have you ever spent countless hours wrestling with Excel formulas, trying to convert “one thousand two hundred” into “1,200” or vice versa? For years, this task has frustrated professionals across ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users ... I used the TEXTBEFORE function to capture everything before that last dash. The argument for text is the list of SKU numbers, which is A2:A14 ...
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Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

Q. I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT to dissect cells. However, I have some spreadsheets where each piece of information is a different length and uses different delimiters. Is ...