When you concatenate text, you surround the text with double quotation marks so Microsoft Excel recognizes it as text. Otherwise, you'll receive an error. Excel then ...
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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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