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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I want my usernames in column B, so I place my cursor in B2, under the “Usernames” header, and use the TEXTBEFORE function since the username is what I want extracted. The argument for text is the ...

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