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 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 ...

Have you ever followed a YouTube tutorial, carefully copied an Excel formula, and hit “Enter,” only to be met with an error or baffling results? It’s a ...

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 ...

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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Tools like Excel and Google Sheets are ubiquitous these days, and learning how to use them more effectively will quickly ...

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Ever since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in 2022, large language models (LLMs) have changed how people make decisions, solve technical issues and even ...

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