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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

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 functions, you can download this Excel workbook and view ...
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Using TEXTSPLIT to dissect Excel text strings

I have used the Excel functions LEFT, MID ... which contains the text string we want to extract information from. We will use “, ” as the Col_delimiter because we want to split the text string each ...