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

and the previous item in this month’s Tech Q&A “Using TEXTSPLIT to Dissect Excel Text Strings”. The TEXTBEFORE function pulls what comes before a delimiter. The syntax for the TEXTBEFORE function is = ...
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Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

I have used the Excel functions LEFT ... The second argument is Col_delimiter, which is the character(s) we want to use to split the text string into separate columns. In this case, we will use the ...