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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 ... The first argument is “Text,” which is the text string we want to split. The second argument is Col_delimiter, which is the character(s) we want to use to ...
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Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

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 ...
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3 New Microsoft Excel Features to Try in November 2025

All details in this article are correct as of October 29, 2025. Accessibility to some of the latest Excel features depends on ...
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Banish Spreadsheet Headaches: How I Use ChatGPT as My Excel and Google Sheets Wingman

Tools like Excel and Google Sheets are ubiquitous these days, and learning how to use them more effectively will quickly ...

Excel’s New Clean Data Button Will Save You Hours : But There’s a Catch

Is Excel's Clean Data button the ultimate time-saver for messy spreadsheets? Find out how it works, its quirks, and how it compares to Power Query ...