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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

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 ... the function TEXTJOIN, and the previous ...
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Excel's Custom Data Validation: A Trick You Didn't Know You Needed

If you've used data validation in Excel before, you probably selected the relevant cells, clicked "Data Validation" in the Data tab on the ribbon, and created the rule in the Data Validation dialog ...
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Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

I have used the Excel functions ... TEXTSPLIT is a very useful function for breaking down text cells that contain different lengths of text and delimiters. It can be used in several ways, and we’ll ...
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Microsoft makes using formulas in Excel easier, adds new features

In a nutshell: Formulas are a must for incorporating math into spreadsheets, but using them in Microsoft Excel involves a learning curve and can become tedious. This latest update adds a bit of ...