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.

Regular expressions (or REGEX) are search patterns that can be used to check if a string of text conforms to a given pattern ...