If you would like to follow along with the examples, you can download this Excel workbook and view the video at the end of this item. Note that the following content is based on Microsoft Excel 365 ...

If you are interested in Excel’s text functions, you can also read the August 2023 Tech Q&A article “Join Text in Excel”, which explains the function TEXTJOIN, and the previous item in this month’s ...

Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

Have you ever stared at a massive spreadsheet, overwhelmed by the chaos of mixed data—names, IDs, codes—all crammed into single cells? It’s a common frustration for anyone managing large datasets in ...

All details in this article are correct as of October 29, 2025. Accessibility to some of the latest Excel features depends on ...