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. 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 ...

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

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