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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 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 review ...
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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 ... the function TEXTJOIN, and the previous item ...