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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. This can be hard-coded inside double quotes or a reference to a cell ...
JournalofAccountancy

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 ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

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 ...
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Data Cleaning Tools and Techniques for Non-Coders

Understanding, organizing, and validating data directly affects the accuracy of stories. New tools make cleaning accessible ...
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Learning REDUCE in Excel completely changed how I use spreadsheets

REDUCE allows you to iterate through your data, building your result step-by-step, in the same way a loop operates in a ...

Scientists Develop More Efficient Way To Extract Rare Earth Elements Amid Global Trade Tensions

Researchers at UT Austin have created artificial membrane channels that mimic nature’s precision to selectively extract key ...

Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology

A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person’s mental images into descriptive sentences.
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Cardamom extract shows promise as a natural antiviral treatment

A humble kitchen spice could pack a powerful antiviral punch. Researchers have found that compounds in cardamom seeds can trigger the body’s virus-detecting systems, potentially paving the way for ...