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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 TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

I have used the Excel functions LEFT ... Is there an easy way to dissect these types of text strings? A. TEXTSPLIT is a very useful function for breaking down text cells that contain different lengths ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of functions like LEFT, RIGHT, MID, and FIND, leading to some confusing ...