The ampersand symbol is a quick and easy way to combine data in Excel. To explain this method to you, I have created sample data in Excel with the names of some persons (refer to the above screenshot) ...

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

If you are interested in Excel’s text functions, you can also read the August 2023 Tech Q&A article ... Because our delimiter is a dash (-), and there are multiple dashes in each SKU number, I have to ...