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

Sometimes it's not possible to separate data yourself before putting it into an Excel spreadsheet. Often, the information from old data files gets lumped into a single cell. The same can happen if you ...

Microsoft Excel allows you to export spreadsheet data to a number of common formats for use with other applications. If you need to export data to another Windows-based application, chances are that ...

If a program can output a delimited text file (I’ll get to what that means in a minute), Excel can turn it into a reasonable table. Of course, the text has to be properly prepared. Every line in that ...

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While working with Microsoft Excel sheets, you might need to remove the first few characters, the last few characters, or both from the text. Removing the first few characters from a column of texts ...

I'm importing a lot of comma delimited text files into Excel - because they all have the exact same formatting, is there a way to tell Excel to process all of them the same way? (ie, what fields to ...

Do you know that you can format text in multiple ways in a single cell in Microsoft Excel? In this guide, we show how you can add multiple formatting to your text in a single cell in Excel. Formatting ...

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I have extracted a database into a bam file that is separated by tabs. Reading it from the terminal is proving itself to be a very difficult task. I was instructed to transfer the information through ...