Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...

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 ...

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This is my simple way to use the VLOOKUP function in Excel to find data fast. I walk through how I use VLOOKUP to look up inventory amounts from a table. This helps me quickly check how many items we ...

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