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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

The text argument references the text or cell where ... It should now contain the instance of the delimiter after which you want the text extracted. If you would like to follow along in using these ...
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These wildcards in Excel are your secret weapon for faster, smarter searches

The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character that represents any sequence of characters, including when there are no characters at all. It’s the most flexible of the bunch, since it can replace any ...
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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 ...